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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 131 · permalink

Field

1:07:36–1:08:12 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:531:07:53Frame at 1:08:111:08:11

Play from 1:07:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 181–182. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • bald, masked, wearing a dark costume with visible tubing or wires visible
  • group of indistinct figures in dark clothing, walking in line visible
Seen happening
  • A masked figure stands motionless in darkness. [frame:1]
  • A group of people walks along a path beside a fence under trees. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm sorry.” 68:07
Seen
mask, tubing or wires on costume, fence, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: mystery, group movement, isolation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static close-up followed by wide shot, period costume design

A bald, masked figure is shown in close-up, followed by a group of people walking along a path beside a fence under trees. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“Now if they're doing any shooting...” 67:59 · “I'll be with you anyhow.” 68:01 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 1:07:53 (passage 1:07:36–1:08:12); US record: No renewal found

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