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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 103 · permalink

Private office

58:23–59:21 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 58:5258:52

Play from 58:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 71 · shots 141–141. 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
  • Captain (named at t:58:39): man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit and tie, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • Jim (named at t:58:39): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Captain West (named at t:59:09): not visible audible, mentioned
Also said
“Federal, touch stop at the corner. Captain West just met it. These old cars parked in the alley. Come.” 59:09
Seen
desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], radio equipment [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], window with blinds [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: law enforcement coordination, radio surveillance, urban search operation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, studio lighting, static camera, period office decor

A man in a suit sits at a desk in an office, speaking on the phone while a radio and other equipment are visible. The transcript indicates a police operation is being coordinated to search a neighborhood block.

“- Random radio is in this block somewhere, Captain. The estimates prove that. - Phone for more men. Have them surround the block. We'll search every building in this neighborhood if necessary, Captain. We'll cover as much as we can to help arrive. Jim, you take that seat. Come on, Jim. - Two, one, zero.” 58:39 · “Urgent!” 58:52 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 58:52 (passage 58:23–59:21); US record: No renewal found

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