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Beat 87

45:01–45:31 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 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 45:1645:16

Play from 45:01 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 60 · shots 122–122. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • hands visible, no other features; appears to be manipulating a device visible
Seen happening
  • Hands manipulate a device with knobs and switches. [frame:1]
Seen
device with knobs and switches [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or decisive; themes: technology, decision-making; style notes: close-up shot, high contrast lighting, focused on hands and device

A person's hands are shown manipulating a device with knobs and switches. A voice says they are going to go.

“I'm going to go.” 45:29 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 45:16 (passage 45:01–45:31); US record: No renewal found

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