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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 125 · permalink

Field

1:04:21–1:04:33 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 1:04:271:04:27

Play from 1:04:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 82 · shots 171–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark fedora and a long dark coat, medium build visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress and a dark cropped jacket visible
Seen happening
  • A woman gestures with her right arm while standing next to a man. [frame:1]
Also said
“She thinks he's a mass model too. Nice work, Gene.” 64:27
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], long dark coat [frame:1], light-colored dress [frame:1], dark cropped jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or directive; themes: command, interaction, outdoor setting; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, outdoor natural lighting, static framing

A man in a hat and coat stands beside a woman in a light dress and dark jacket; she gestures with her right arm. The transcript includes commands to move and a comment about someone being a 'mass model'.

“Come on.” 64:21 · “Get up.” 64:22 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 1:04:27 (passage 1:04:21–1:04:33); US record: No renewal found

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