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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 53 · permalink

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28:31–28:36 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:3428:34

Play from 28:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 76–76. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Back of head, dark hair, no visible clothing or facial features. visible
Seen
handwritten note [frame:1]
On screen
They shall turn over to you one million in cash when the proven article has been delivered.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: ransom, negotiation, mystery; style notes: Close-up framing, high contrast lighting emphasizing the note, shallow depth of field with blurred background.

A close-up shows a handwritten note promising one million in cash upon delivery of a proven article, with the back of a person's head visible below it. No spoken dialogue or other actions are present in this beat.

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 28:34 (passage 28:31–28:36); US record: No renewal found

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