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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 150 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:16:26–1:16:30 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:16:281:16:28

Play from 1:16:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 203–203. 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
  • wearing dark mask and dark clothing, lying down visible
  • older man with glasses, wearing suit, lying down visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and glasses lies in a vehicle and speaks. [frame:1]
Seen
vehicle interior structure, glasses, mask
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: injury, confinement; style notes: low-angle shot, high-contrast lighting, confined framing

Two figures lie in a vehicle interior, one speaking a line of distress. The setting is a confined space with visible structural elements.

“They've hurt me!” 76:28 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 1:16:28 (passage 1:16:26–1:16:30); US record: No renewal found

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