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Fear in the Night · Beat 107 · permalink

Vehicle interior

22:32–22:56 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:3422:34Frame at 22:3922:39Frame at 22:4622:46Frame at 22:5422:54

Play from 22:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 358–365. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man driving, wearing a hat and dark coat visible
  • woman in passenger seat, dark hair, dark coat visible
  • man in back seat, wearing a hat, visible in frame:1 and frame:4 visible
  • woman in back seat, dark hair, dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • Four people are seated in a car, looking tense. [frame:1]
  • A car is seen parked or crashed in a wooded area outside. [frame:3]
Also said
“All right. All right.” 22:32
Seen
car interior [frame:1], steering wheel [frame:1], hats [frame:1], another car outside [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: mechanical failure, group tension, night driving; style notes: black-and-white, tight framing inside car, high contrast lighting emphasizing faces and dashboard

Four people are inside a car at night; one man drives while others look concerned. The transcript indicates the windshield wipers are not working, and someone suggests they should have tested them before buying the car.

“Now, the wipers won't work.” 22:32 · “You should have tried them before you bought it, dear.” 22:32 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 22:34 (passage 22:32–22:56); US record: No renewal found

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