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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 14 · permalink

Road

13:34–13:49 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; 1 name 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 13:4213:42

Play from 13:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 20–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • visible inside car, wearing dark clothing, face partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A vintage car is parked on a road with its door open and a person visible inside. [frame:1]
Seen
vintage car
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: transportation, summoning; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast black-and-white, period vehicle, natural daylight

A person is seen inside a vintage car with its door open, as someone off-screen says 'Come, get in.' The scene appears to be outdoors on a road during daylight.

“Come, get in.” 13:38 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 13:42 (passage 13:34–13:49); US record: No renewal found

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