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Phantom of Chinatown · Beat 94 · permalink

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43:20–43:50 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 43:3543:35

Play from 43:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 179–179. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • not visible audible
  • not visible audible
  • May (named at t:43:36): not visible audible
  • Rose (named at t:43:47): not visible audible
Also said
“That's all, May. Thank you.” 43:36 · “You were on duty last night? From 8 until 12.” 43:48
Seen
sign reading 'TELEPHONE COMPANY CHINATOWN EXCHANGE'
On screen
TELEPHONE COMPANY CHINATOWN EXCHANGE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: investigative and procedural; themes: telephone communication, investigation, workplace routine; style notes: black-and-white, static exterior shot of signage, dialogue-driven

A scene at the Chinatown Exchange telephone company, where characters discuss locating a phone operator to call Frazier's house. The dialogue suggests they are investigating a call made between 8 and 12 PM, and one operator named Rose is being questioned.

“After all, all we have to do is find the operator to call Frazier's house. Yes, it's all very simple.” 43:23 · “Well, come on. Let's get busy.” 43:28 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 43:35 (passage 43:20–43:50); US record: No renewal found

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