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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 133 · permalink

Private office

1:09:06–1:09:20 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; 5 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 1:09:101:09:10Frame at 1:09:171:09:17

Play from 1:09:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 184–185. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a helmet and dark uniform, holding a rifle visible
  • wearing a hat and coat, seen from behind visible
  • wearing a hat and coat, seen from behind visible
  • wearing a hat and coat, seen from behind visible
  • unspecified audible
Seen happening
  • A person in uniform holds a rifle inside a room. [frame:1]
  • Three figures walk out of a doorway into daylight. [frame:2]
Seen
rifle [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], doorway with fanlight [frame:2], statue [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: escape, confrontation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static medium shots, chiaroscuro lighting

A person holding a rifle is visible in a dim interior, followed by a view of three figures exiting through a doorway into daylight. A voice says they intend to escape.

“I'm going to get away.” 69:11 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 1:09:10 (passage 1:09:06–1:09:20); US record: No renewal found

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