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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 149 · permalink

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1:16:06–1:16:26 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:16:161:16:16

Play from 1:16:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 202–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen audible
Seen
silhouetted structure with wires, small object on wire
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger, warning, unseen threat; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted composition, minimal visible detail

A character speaks against shooting a flying object, warning that possessing a meteorite would cause catastrophic explosion. The frame shows a dark, silhouetted structure with a small object on a wire against a dim sky.

“I could bring him down with a machine gun. No, don't shoot. If you have the meteorite, you'll blow us all out of the sky.” 76:19 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 1:16:16 (passage 1:16:06–1:16:26); US record: No renewal found

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