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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 90 · permalink

Private office

47:35–48:47 Registered 1939

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

Frame at 48:1148:11

Play from 47:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 126–126. 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:1
People
  • Dr. Snogger (named at t:48:20): man in dark jacket, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a cluttered room, holding something in his hands. [frame:1]
Also said
“I am free, Dr. Snogger. I am stronger than you now.” 48:20 · “Stronger than the police. You'll never make a slave out of me again.” 48:24
Seen
dartboard [frame:1], shelves with clutter [frame:1], desk or table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: defiance, control vs freedom, identity; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing, cluttered background suggests a private, possibly secretive setting

A man in a dark jacket stands in a cluttered room with shelves and a dartboard, speaking defiantly. The transcript includes references to 'Iron Man,' 'Captain West,' and 'Dr. Snogger,' suggesting a confrontation over control or freedom.

“What was it? What happened? Iron Man.” 47:47 · “You tagged me. There's no one here but us who's in it, Bailey.” 47:50 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 48:11 (passage 47:35–48:47); US record: No renewal found

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