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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 70 · permalink

Field

32:22–32:23 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 32:2232:22

Play from 32:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 98–98. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark clothing, silhouette, no visible facial features visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands beside a parked convertible on a grassy slope with the door open. [frame:1]
Seen
convertible car, grassy slope
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: isolation, transportation, mystery; style notes: low-angle shot, high-contrast lighting, static frame

A person in dark clothing stands beside a light-colored convertible car parked on a grassy, uneven slope. The vehicle's door is open, and the person appears to be entering or exiting the car.

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 32:22 (passage 32:22–32:23); US record: No renewal found

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