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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 147 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:15:35–1:15:56 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; 2 names 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 1:15:451:15:45

Play from 1:15:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 200–200. 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
  • pilot wearing helmet and goggles, visible in left cockpit seat visible
  • pilot wearing helmet and goggles, visible in right cockpit seat visible
Seen happening
  • Two pilots are seated in the cockpit of a flying rocket plane. [frame:1]
Seen
rocket plane cockpit, pilot helmets and goggles, ocean
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: aviation, military, technology; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up of cockpit, high-contrast lighting on pilots' faces

Two pilots are visible in the cockpit of a rocket plane flying over water. A voice reports the plane's location and destination.

“ships and planes. Rocket plane eight miles off Devil's Point, heading for the Navy Anchorage.” 75:41 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 1:15:45 (passage 1:15:35–1:15:56); US record: No renewal found

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