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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 4 · permalink

Laboratory

2:21–2:50 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:362:36

Play from 2:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 4–4. 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 with beard, wearing light-colored shirt, visible in profile visible
  • man with glasses, wearing dark shirt, holding a megaphone-like device visible
Seen happening
  • One man holds a megaphone-like device toward another man. [frame:1]
Seen
megaphone-like device [frame:1], glassware and scientific apparatus [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: scientific control, departure, confrontation; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

Two men stand in a cluttered room with scientific equipment; one speaks about control and leaving. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be a laboratory.

“It must be controlled.” 2:37 · “I'm going to go.” 2:41 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 2:36 (passage 2:21–2:50); US record: No renewal found

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