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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 7 · permalink

Theatre

2:11–2:14 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:132:13

Play from 2:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 9–9. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a tuxedo, standing at a podium visible
  • audience members, mixed gender, wearing formal attire, seated in rows visible
Seen
podium [frame:1], microphone [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:1], formal dresses [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, attentive; themes: public speaking, formal gathering; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, stage spotlight on speaker, audience in dimmer background

A man in a tuxedo stands at a podium addressing an audience seated in rows; the audience includes men and women in formal attire, some clapping. The setting is an indoor hall with stage lighting focused on the speaker.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Phantom of Chinatown (1940) at 2:13 (passage 2:11–2:14); US record: No renewal found

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