Public Reel

The Phantom Creeps · Beat 106 · permalink

Sidewalk

59:36–1:00:04 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 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 59:5059:50

Play from 59:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 144–144. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark suit and a fedora, seen from behind visible
  • man in lighter clothing, partially visible on left, seen from behind visible
Mentioned
  • The men are preparing for a confrontation or pursuit. [t:60:00]
Seen
fedora hat, suit, steps, building entrance
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: pursuit, division of roles, preparation for conflict; style notes: medium shot from behind, high-contrast black-and-white, static framing

Two men are seen from behind on steps outside a building; one is told to stay and find a radio location while the other will drive and possibly shoot. The dialogue suggests they are preparing for a confrontation or pursuit.

“I'll take it you stay here and find the radio location. All right. Stay here and look out. Let me drive in case you have to do any shooting. All right. Don't want to be in on the finish. Even if it is your own.” 60:00 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from The Phantom Creeps (1939) at 59:50 (passage 59:36–1:00:04); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/ThePhantomCreeps/b106.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite