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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 113 · permalink

Road

1:01:59–1:02:22 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 1:02:061:02:06Frame at 1:02:151:02:15Frame at 1:02:181:02:18Frame at 1:02:201:02:20

Play from 1:01:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 153–156. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, visible in vehicle visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing a dark hat, visible in vehicle visible
Seen happening
  • A barricade is visible across the road. [frame:3]
Seen
vehicle [frame:2], barricade [frame:3], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: obstacle, caution, travel; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups in vehicle, wide shot of road, high-contrast lighting

Two people in a vehicle observe a barricade on a road. One asks if it is a barricade, and the other replies it may be a trick to stop them.

“Is that a barricade across the road?” 62:00 · “Yes, but it may be a trick to stop and keep going.” 62:19 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 1:02:06 (passage 1:01:59–1:02:22); US record: No renewal found

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