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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 11 · permalink

Private office

11:53–12:11 Registered 1939

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; 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 12:0212:02

Play from 11:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 15–15. 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
  • man in dark suit, light hair, standing left visible
  • woman in knee-length dress, dark hair, standing center visible
  • man in dark suit, dark hair, standing right visible
Also said
“On scene.” 12:06 · “That one smokes a popular brand.” 12:09
Seen
bookshelves [frame:1], furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: mystery, dialogue-driven, office setting; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing

Three people stand in a room with shelves and furniture; one man speaks about equipment being moved and mentions Rankine of Aspiring. A line notes that one person smokes a popular brand, though no cigarette is visible in the frame.

“A lot of equipment seems to have been moved.” 12:00 · “You can talk to Rankine of Aspiring. I will be with you. But...” 12:03 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 12:02 (passage 11:53–12:11); US record: No renewal found

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