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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 102 · permalink

Private office

57:29–58:23 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5657:56

Play from 57:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 140–140. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated, wearing dark suit, light shirt, thinning hair, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Mr. Koudan (named at t:57:43): man standing, wearing dark suit and fedora, mid-adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man operates equipment at a desk while another stands nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“I must finish it.” 57:55 · “The prince has got a supply box.” 58:01
Seen
desk with radio equipment, framed picture on wall, window with blinds
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: espionage, radio communication, escape planning; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, shadowed background, period costume and props

A man sits at a desk operating equipment while another man stands nearby in a dimly lit interior. The transcript includes fragmented numerical sequences and urgent dialogue about radio tracking and escape by submarine.

“Atlantic! What's wrong? What is it? The Federal radio truck is only four blocks away. It's heading in this direction. Well, they can't attack me, Mr. Koudan.” 57:43 · “Maybe not, but they can trace from where it's coming from.” 57:52 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 The Phantom Creeps (1939) at 57:56 (passage 57:29–58:23); US record: No renewal found

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