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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 39 · permalink

Forest

18:48–19:32 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:1019:10

Play from 18:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 55–55. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing near car visible, audible
  • woman, partially visible, tangled near car visible, audible
  • man, speaking lines about being a doctor audible
Seen happening
  • A woman is tangled near a crashed car while a man stands nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“There's a government plane. Two men and another woman.” 19:16 · “I'm a doctor.” 19:25
Seen
crashed car, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: emergency response, crash aftermath, mystery of the plane; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A woman is found tangled near a crashed car in a wooded area; a man offers to help her and mentions being a doctor while others discuss a government plane crash. The scene takes place outdoors near trees and a vehicle, with dialogue indicating urgency and a need to reach a wreck.

“Get over there!” 18:53 · “- Help me, please. I'm all tangled up. - One moment, madam. Monk.” 19:06 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 19:10 (passage 18:48–19:32); US record: No renewal found

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