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The Phantom Creeps · Beat 93 · permalink

Private office

52:06–54:15 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:1153:11

Play from 52:06 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 65 · shots 129–129. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored suit and fedora, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and glasses, medium build visible, audible
Also said
“Come on, get out of here. Get out of here. Get out of here. This is the stuff we want, all right. Now you get going. I'll lock this guy and Monk in the vault until we can get back.” 53:22 · “Where is it? Go! We're locked in with Zubacame! No, no one is going to die.” 54:10
Seen
neometer [t:52:10], vault [t:53:22], fedora [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], glasses [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: scientific mystery, deception and disguise, confinement and danger; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting, three men in formal attire, static framing

Three men in suits and hats stand in a dimly lit interior space, discussing a device called a 'neometer' and searching for a mysterious box. One man is accused of being 'Monk' in disguise, and after a struggle, they lock someone in a vault while shouting about being trapped with 'Zubacame'.

“This is the neometer.” 52:10 · “Monk's in there. We better mask before we go in.” 52:43 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 53:11 (passage 52:06–54:15); US record: No renewal found

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