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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 40 · permalink

Sidewalk

19:32–20:11 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; 5 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 19:5119:51

Play from 19:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 56–56. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, kneeling visible
  • man lying on ground, partially visible visible
  • man in uniform or cap, standing visible
  • man in dark coat, standing visible
  • Merlin (named at t:20:02): man speaking, not visible in frame audible
Seen happening
  • A man kneels beside a person lying on the ground. [frame:1]
Seen
ambulance [t:19:41], person lying on ground [frame:1], man in hat and suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: emergency, medical response, public incident; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural daylight, static framing

A man kneels beside a person lying on the ground while others stand nearby; an ambulance is mentioned as on the way. A man identifies himself as a physician when called for.

“Okay, buddy. There's an ambulance on the way.” 19:41 · “Where are you, Merlin? - I'm a physician.” 20:02 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 19:51 (passage 19:32–20:11); US record: No renewal found

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