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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 24 · permalink

Vehicle interior

17:10–17:23 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes 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 17:1617:16

Play from 17:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 37–37. 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 a dark hat and coat, seated, facing right visible
  • wearing a cap and dark coat, seated, facing left, hand near face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two people are seated in a vehicle interior, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
Seen
vehicle dashboard with gauges [frame:1], steering wheel [frame:1], hats and coats worn by characters [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: mystery, investigation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, interior lighting, static framing

Two people are in a vehicle interior, discussing the whereabouts of Dr. Durga. One person asks where Dr. Durga was going, and the other responds that they have no idea.

“Tell me, from where the car was found, have you any idea where Dr. Durga was going?” 17:13 · “None what it is. Damn, what happened?” 17:13 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 17:16 (passage 17:10–17:23); US record: No renewal found

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