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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 114 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:02:22–1:02:35 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 1:02:281:02:28

Play from 1:02:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 157–157. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and glasses, seated in driver's seat visible
  • man wearing a dark hat, seated in passenger seat visible
Seen
car interior [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], dark hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: black and white, medium close-up, static framing

Two men are seated in a vehicle, one driving and the other in the passenger seat. The scene is shot in black and white with no visible text or dialogue.

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 1:02:28 (passage 1:02:22–1:02:35); US record: No renewal found

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