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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 124 · permalink

Forest

1:04:00–1:04:21 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 1:04:041:04:04Frame at 1:04:151:04:15

Play from 1:04:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 169–170. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, medium build, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • One man grabs the other's arm while standing among trees. [frame:1]
  • The two men face each other closely, one holding the other's wrist. [frame:2]
Also said
“Stay there, my friend. We need you.” 64:09 · “Been after you for a long time.” 64:19
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1], trees and foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, capture, recognition; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white, static framing

Two men in suits and hats confront each other outdoors near trees; one restrains the other while dialogue suggests a capture and recognition. No names are spoken, and no on-screen text or objects beyond clothing and foliage are visible.

“What about the hole?” 64:05 · “Put him out.” 64:08 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 1:04:04 (passage 1:04:00–1:04:21); US record: No renewal found

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