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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 145 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:14:36–1:14:57 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 1:14:461:14:46

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 98 · shots 197–197. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • masked figure wearing dark helmet and goggles, visible from chest up visible
  • masked figure wearing dark helmet and goggles, visible from chest up, seated to the right of p1 visible
Seen
vehicle cockpit, cloudy sky, masks and helmets
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: mystery, aviation, anonymity; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black and white, dramatic framing emphasizing the masked figures against the sky

Two figures in dark, full-face masks and helmets are visible inside a vehicle cockpit against a cloudy sky. The scene is shot in black and white with a static camera angle focused on the cockpit interior.

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 1:14:46 (passage 1:14:36–1:14:57); US record: No renewal found

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