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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 16 · permalink

Vehicle interior

14:56–15:27 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:5914:59Frame at 15:1515:15

Play from 14:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 26–27. 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
  • man in dark suit, visible in dim light, seated or standing in group visible
  • Captain Westbath (named at t:14:56): man with white hair, wearing suit, visible in dim light visible
  • man in dark clothing, partially visible in shadow visible
  • Mrs. Zorka (named at t:15:05): woman wearing wide-brimmed hat and light-colored top, seen from behind near airplane visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people are gathered in a dimly lit interior. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a hat stands near an airplane. [frame:2]
Also said
“What the water?” 15:02 · “Whenever you're ready, Mrs. Zorka.” 15:05
Seen
airplane [frame:2], hat [frame:2], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict under pressure, preparation for departure, authority figures in crisis; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, medium close-ups, period costume

A group of people are in a dimly lit interior, one of whom speaks to Captain Westbath and Mrs. Zorka. A woman in a hat is seen near an airplane, and dialogue suggests preparation for a flight.

“You're asking too much, Captain Westbath. You're such a shock. I'll go. I'll go.” 14:56 · “I must not.” 15:00 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 14:59 (passage 14:56–15:27); US record: No renewal found

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