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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 58 · permalink

Vehicle interior

30:59–31:02 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:0131:01

Play from 30:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 85–85. 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 wearing dark suit and fedora, young adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing dark uniform cap and jacket, middle-aged, heavier build visible
Seen
fedora hat, uniform cap, vehicle seat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly tense; themes: travel, dialogue-driven moment; style notes: medium close-up, black and white, studio lighting, two-shot composition

Two men are seated side by side in what appears to be a vehicle interior; one is speaking. The transcript line suggests a shared experience of being 'floated'.

“We all get floated a bit.” 31:00 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 31:01 (passage 30:59–31:02); US record: No renewal found

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