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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 128 · permalink

Outdoor road

1:07:02–1:07:21 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote 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 1:07:041:07:04Frame at 1:07:131:07:13

Play from 1:07:02 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 176–177. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • men in dark clothing, standing near a truck visible
  • person holding a flashlight in dim interior visible
Seen happening
  • Men stand near a covered truck on a road. [frame:1]
  • A person holds a flashlight in a dark interior space. [frame:2]
Seen
covered truck, flashlight
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, nocturnal activity; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static shots, noir-like shadows

A group of men stands near a covered truck outdoors; another scene shows a dim interior with a person holding a flashlight. No names or specific events are mentioned in the transcript.

“Yeah.” 67:06 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 1:07:04 (passage 1:07:02–1:07:21); US record: No renewal found

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