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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 25 · permalink

Vehicle interior

17:23–17:38 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:2517:25Frame at 17:3017:30Frame at 17:3517:35

Play from 17:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 38–40. 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 and fedora visible
  • woman in dark dress with ruffled collar visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a doorway. [frame:3]
  • A dark, rocky outdoor scene with a ladder is shown. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit and hat stands in a doorway with a woman. [frame:3]
Seen
fedora hat, ladder, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, mystery; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on characters, use of shadows

A man and a woman stand in a doorway during a tense exchange; a separate shot shows a dark, rocky outdoor scene with a ladder. The transcript includes a demand to 'Pay it out!' and a question about presence.

“What are you doing here?” 17:25 · “Pay it out!” 17:36 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 17:25 (passage 17:23–17:38); US record: No renewal found

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