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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 101 · permalink

Private office

57:27–57:29 Registered 1939

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 57:2857:28

Play from 57:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 139–139. 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
  • older man with receding hairline, wearing dark formal attire, seated and facing right visible
  • partially visible figure, possibly wearing a hat or dark headwear, standing or seated behind p1 visible
Seen
wall-mounted panel with circular dials [frame:1], window with bright exterior light [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: secrecy, confrontation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium close-up, static framing, chiaroscuro effect

Two figures are in a dimly lit interior space; one is seated and facing right, the other is partially visible behind and to the left. No dialogue or on-screen text is present 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 The Phantom Creeps (1939) at 57:28 (passage 57:27–57:29); US record: No renewal found

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