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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 88 · permalink

Laboratory

45:31–47:33 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:3445:34Frame at 46:3546:35

Play from 45:31 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 61 · shots 123–124. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
laboratory (laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in dark lab coat, medium build, visible from waist up visible
  • person in doorway, partially obscured, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man operates a device with dials and a circular component on a workbench. [frame:1]
  • A person stands in a doorway, partially visible, observing the man at the workbench. [frame:2]
Also said
“Get them.” 46:08 · “You let this condenser loose.” 47:29
Seen
device with dials and circular component, workbench with boxes and equipment, doorway with arch, bookshelves or storage units
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: science fiction, invention, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, cluttered lab setting with dramatic lighting on the device and operator

A man in a lab coat operates a device in a cluttered laboratory while another person is visible in a doorway. The transcript includes exclamations and dialogue about an invisible gas, a Z-ray, and a shadow belt, suggesting a confrontation or experiment.

“He's coming through. He's coming through. He's here.” 45:51 · “Well, my invisible gas and the Z-ray will take care of him and the others.” 46:02 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 45:34 (passage 45:31–47:33); US record: No renewal found

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