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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 85 · permalink

Private office

44:25–44:42 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:2744:27Frame at 44:3244:32Frame at 44:3944:39

Play from 44:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 59 · shots 118–120. 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:3
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing outdoors visible
  • woman in light blouse and dark skirt, leaning on car visible
  • man in fedora and suit, seated indoors visible
  • man in heavy coat and hat, embracing another man visible
  • man in heavy coat and hat, being embraced visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands near a car while a woman leans on the car. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat sits indoors and looks toward the camera. [frame:2]
  • Two men in heavy coats embrace in a room with shelves and a desk. [frame:3]
Seen
car [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1, frame:2], heavy coats [frame:3], desk [frame:3], shelves [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: confrontation, secret meeting, emotional reunion; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast lighting

A man in a suit and hat stands near a car outside a house while a woman leans on the car; inside, a man in a hat looks toward the camera, then two men in heavy coats embrace in a room with shelves and a desk.

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 44:27 (passage 44:25–44:42); US record: No renewal found

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