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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 127 · permalink

Road

1:06:43–1:07:02 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:461:06:46Frame at 1:06:541:06:54Frame at 1:07:001:07:00

Play from 1:06:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 84 · shots 173–175. 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
  • man in military-style uniform with cap, visible in frame 3 visible
  • man in suit and fedora, visible in frame 3 visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, visible in frame 3 visible
  • man in uniform, partially visible in frame 1 visible
  • Lieutenant (named at t:66:47): unseen speaker audible
  • Parker (named at t:66:47): unseen speaker audible
  • Purple Peters (named at t:66:58): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A truck is parked on a dirt road with a man visible in the driver's seat. [frame:1]
  • A covered vehicle is seen through trees, suggesting concealment or ambush. [frame:2]
  • Three men stand near a truck, one in uniform, two in suits. [frame:3]
Also said
“Purple Peters men will take care of the other side.” 66:58 · “Oh, my God.” 67:01
Seen
truck, trees, uniforms, suits
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military operation, suspense, authority and command; style notes: low-angle shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing emphasizing confrontation

A military-style truck is parked on a dirt road near trees; several men in uniforms and suits stand nearby. A voice orders men to spread out and mentions 'Purple Peters men' while someone reacts with alarm.

“Anything new, Parker? Not yet, Lieutenant. Sergeant, spread your men along this side.” 66:47 · “Hey! You hear that?” 66:56 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 1:06:46 (passage 1:06:43–1:07:02); US record: No renewal found

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