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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 132 · permalink

Street

1:08:12–1:09:06 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 1:08:391:08:39

Play from 1:08:12 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 87 · shots 183–183. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, medium build visible, audible
  • soldier in uniform and helmet, carrying rifle, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A soldier hands an object to a man in a suit beside a vehicle. [frame:1]
Also said
“Look out!” 68:41
Seen
military helmet [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], vehicle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military operation, covert action, urban night; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static camera, period costume

A soldier in uniform and helmet hands an object to a man in a suit and fedora beside a vehicle; a voice orders someone to stay outside and then warns of danger. The scene is outdoors at night or in low light, with no visible signage or clocks.

“The plan all set up, Captain. I've spent four men inside with masks.” 68:30 · “You stay outside.” 68:39 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 1:08:39 (passage 1:08:12–1:09:06); US record: No renewal found

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