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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 2 · permalink

Laboratory

1:52–2:02 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:571:57

Play from 1:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 1–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
laboratory (laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light-colored lab coat and dark trousers, medium build, visible from the side visible
  • tall, humanoid robot with segmented metal armor, helmet, and visible joints visible
Seen
robot [frame:1], lab coat [frame:1], paneled walls with shelves and framed items [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: clinical and mysterious; themes: science fiction, invention, human-machine interaction; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting emphasizing the robot’s metallic surface and the man’s silhouette

A man in a lab coat stands beside a tall, armored robot in a room with paneled walls and shelves. No dialogue or on-screen text is visible in the frame.

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 1:57 (passage 1:52–2:02); US record: No renewal found

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