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Fear in the Night · Beat 101 · permalink

Private office

21:39–21:43 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:4121:41

Play from 21:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 350–350. 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
  • man, mid-adult, wearing dark suit and tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks directly to someone off-camera. [frame:1]
Seen
suit and tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: personal confrontation, persuasion; style notes: close-up, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

A man in a suit is shown in a close-up. He speaks a line suggesting something will be better for someone else.

“It'll be better for you.” 21:42 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 21:41 (passage 21:39–21:43); US record: No renewal found

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