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Teenagers from Outer Space · Beat 2 · permalink

Cave

12:07–15:36 Registered 1959

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; 4 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 13:5213:52

Play from 12:07 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 2 · shots 4–4. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cave (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform with light V-shaped chest stripe, short hair, mid-30s visible, audible
  • man in similar uniform, slightly older, stern expression visible, audible
  • Captain (named at t:12:29): unseen speaker, likely superior officer audible, mentioned
  • Derek (named at t:12:19): unseen, referred to as 'Derek', son of leader mentioned
Also said
“He must be destroyed.” 14:35 · “and any beings with whom he might communicate They must be destroyed.” 14:40
Seen
uniforms [frame:1], Gargan [t:12:29], cave [t:13:08], expandable leg bands [t:13:08]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: authority, alien threat, containment, family loyalty; style notes: black-and-white, medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Two men in uniform discuss capturing Derek, the leader's son, and securing a revived creature called the Gargan. They plan to return with transport ships after leaving the creature restrained in a cave.

“Derek is to be brought back alive.” 12:19 · “Captain, look at this. The Gargan. It is not dead. It has revived.” 12:29 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 Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) at 13:52 (passage 12:07–15:36); US record: No renewal found

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