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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 84 · permalink

House exterior

43:17–44:25 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; 3 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 43:5143:51

Play from 43:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 117–117. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
house exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen, audible only audible
  • Captain West (named at t:43:59): unseen, audible only audible
  • unseen, mentioned only mentioned
Seen happening
  • A car is parked in front of a house with steps and a doorway. [frame:1]
Also said
“Captain West inside the house. All right, keep this woman here. Say, wait a minute, I've got to get in there. I've got to right here. Keep her here if you have to tie her.” 43:59 · “Come on.” 44:07
Seen
car [frame:1], house steps [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: confrontation, authority, detention; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, period vehicle and architecture visible

A person speaks about entering a house while a vehicle is parked outside; another person is instructed to detain a woman. The scene shows the front of a house with steps and a car in the foreground.

“I'm going to go.” 43:17 · “Oh.” 43:54 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 43:51 (passage 43:17–44:25); US record: No renewal found

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