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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 144 · permalink

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1:13:32–1:14:36 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:14:041:14:04

Play from 1:13:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 97 · shots 196–196. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • A cloud of smoke or explosion is visible near a dark structure. [frame:1]
Also said
“Hey!” 74:11
Seen
smoke or explosion, dark structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or chaotic; themes: explosion, urgent dialogue, unspecified danger; style notes: high-contrast black and white, low visibility due to smoke, static framing

A single frame shows a cloud of smoke or explosion near a dark structure. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about a plane and a man with a mustache, but no names are spoken that can be linked to visible individuals.

“Yeah, by plane to see right” 73:39 · “Thanks again. That's what it's a grab the plane. What a man with a must be mom. Come on.” 73:41 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 1:14:04 (passage 1:13:32–1:14:36); US record: No renewal found

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