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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 137 · permalink

Private office

1:09:30–1:11:39 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; 2 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 1:10:351:10:35

Play from 1:09:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 189–189. 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 uniform, standing near a device visible
  • wearing a hat, partially visible visible
Also said
“Two of the soldiers are out there.” 71:10 · “Come on.” 71:13
Seen
helmet, uniform, large device, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, technology, military threat; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting

A person in a helmet and uniform stands near a large device while another person in a hat is visible nearby. Spoken lines refer to soldiers and using 'sea rays' against them.

“They who do the hammer. The soldiers out there, they'll get me. I take care of them with the sea rays.” 69:41 · “Come on.” 70:11 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 1:10:35 (passage 1:09:30–1:11:39); US record: No renewal found

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