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1:01:55–1:01:59 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 1:01:571:01:57

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 152–152. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark hat and coat, medium build, seen from side visible
Seen happening
  • A man handles a coiled rope while standing on uneven ground. [frame:1]
Seen
coiled rope, dark hat, dark coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: mystery, suspense; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, grainy black-and-white film stock, naturalistic outdoor setting

A man in a dark hat and coat is visible outdoors at night, handling a coiled rope near a rocky or leafy ground. 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 1:01:57 (passage 1:01:55–1:01:59); US record: No renewal found

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