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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 13 · permalink

Vehicle interior

12:51–13:34 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:0813:08Frame at 13:2713:27Frame at 13:3113:31

Play from 12:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 17–19. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit, striped trousers, cutaway coat, and foreign hand tie, seated in vehicle visible, audible
  • man wearing dark sunglasses and bow tie, driving vehicle visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near table with others visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible behind p3 visible
Also said
“Back foreign hand tie and cut away coat.” 13:10 · “Pick up that man. What do you mean? Give him a ride? Yes. He looks as I used to. He might be useful to me.” 13:22
Seen
striped trousers [frame:2, t:13:08], cutaway coat [frame:2, t:13:10], foreign hand tie [frame:2, t:13:10], sunglasses [frame:2, frame:3], vehicle interior with steering wheel [frame:2, frame:3], table with telephone [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: espionage, surveillance, identity; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on characters in vehicle and group setting, high contrast black-and-white

A group discusses broadcasting a description of a suspect and plans to meet a spy ring agent; a man in striped trousers and a cutaway coat is seen in a vehicle interior. The dialogue references missing items from a laboratory and a decision to give a ride to a man who might be useful.

“Well, I'll phone headquarters and have a description broadcast.” 12:51 · “Then we will go to meet the agent of the spy ring.” 13:01 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 13:08 (passage 12:51–13:34); US record: No renewal found

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