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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 88 · permalink

Private office

41:04–41:07 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 41:0541:05

Play from 41:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 161–161. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, back to camera visible
  • man in light suit and fedora, facing p1 visible
  • man in dark suit, opening a door visible
  • man in dark suit, walking up stairs in background visible
Seen
{'item': 'stacked wooden boxes', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wooden door with paneling', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'staircase with railing', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'fedora hats', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: mystery, confrontation; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

Four men are present in a dimly lit interior hallway with stairs and a closed door; one man opens the door while others stand near stacked boxes. No dialogue or on-screen text is visible in this beat.

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 41:05 (passage 41:04–41:07); US record: No renewal found

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