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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 82 · permalink

Private office

41:50–42:30 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:5341:53Frame at 41:5641:56Frame at 42:1442:14

Play from 41:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 113–115. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, visible in car and later indoors visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing at desk visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing at desk visible
  • Lieutenant Daly (named at t:41:55): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A convertible car arrives at a house. [frame:1]
  • Three men in suits and hats gather around a desk indoors. [frame:2]
  • A man in a hat walks past draped objects inside. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh.” 42:28 · “Yes.” 42:28
Seen
convertible car, desk, draped objects
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: authority, investigation, mystery; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes and props

A convertible car arrives at a house; three men in suits and hats gather around a desk indoors; a man in a hat walks past draped objects inside. A voice orders an inspection and to admit Lieutenant Daly.

“We're going to inspect the house. Lieutenant Daly arrives, send him in. Keep everyone else out.” 41:55 · “Come on, come on, Garth.” 42:04 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 41:53 (passage 41:50–42:30); US record: No renewal found

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