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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 122 · permalink

Road

1:03:47–1:03:56 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:511:03:51

Play from 1:03:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 81 · shots 167–167. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person standing on car roof, wearing dark coat and hat visible
Seen happening
  • A car drives on a dirt road with a person standing on its roof. [frame:1]
  • A dark shape lies on the road ahead of the car. [frame:1]
Seen
car, dark shape on road
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: pursuit, danger; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shot emphasizing scale and isolation on the road

A car drives on a dirt road with a person standing on its roof; a dark shape lies on the road ahead. 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 1:03:51 (passage 1:03:47–1:03:56); US record: No renewal found

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