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Fear in the Night · Beat 100 · permalink

Forest

21:20–21:39 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:2121:21Frame at 21:2921:29Frame at 21:3221:32Frame at 21:3821:38

Play from 21:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 344–349. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • woman, mid-20s, dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with ruffles visible
Seen happening
  • Man and woman stand facing each other in a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • Man speaks to woman, gesturing with his hands; woman looks at him with concern. [frame:2]
  • Man continues speaking; woman’s expression shows distress. [frame:3]
  • Man looks down, clasping his hands; woman remains fixed on him. [frame:4]
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], light blouse with ruffles [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and sorrowful; themes: breakup, emotional confrontation, regret; style notes: close two-shot framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera emphasizing emotional weight

A man and a woman stand close in an outdoor setting; the man speaks to end their relationship. The woman listens, visibly upset, as he urges her to move on and find someone else.

“Just forget about me, will you? What is it?” 21:21 · “Did I do something? No, it's not your fault. It's just that... Look, we're through. There's nothing we can do about it. Don't call me out. Don't pay any attention to me. Get somebody else. Get anybody.” 21:25 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 Fear in the Night (1947) at 21:21 (passage 21:20–21:39); US record: No renewal found

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