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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 146 · permalink

Field

1:14:57–1:15:35 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:15:051:15:05Frame at 1:15:241:15:24

Play from 1:14:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 198–199. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • Two aircraft are visible on a flat, open field; one is stationary, the other appears to be moving. [frame:1]
  • A dark, indistinct object is on the ground with a small white shape nearby. [frame:2]
Seen
aircraft [frame:1], dark object on ground [frame:2], small white shape [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ambiguous; themes: aviation, mystery, observation; style notes: wide shot, low contrast, hazy atmosphere, static camera

Two aircraft are visible on a flat, open field in a wide shot; one is stationary while the other appears to be landing or taking off. A subsequent frame shows a dark, indistinct object on the ground with a small white shape nearby, under a hazy sky.

“There they are, two parts to the right.” 75:11 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 1:15:05 (passage 1:14:57–1:15:35); US record: No renewal found

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