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Fear in the Night · Beat 109 · permalink

Vehicle interior

23:12–23:36 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 23:1323:13Frame at 23:2123:21Frame at 23:2923:29Frame at 23:3523:35

Play from 23:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 372–381. 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
People
  • man, wearing a hat and dark coat, visible in profile visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a coat, visible in profile visible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are both looking forward, appearing alert. [frame:3]
Seen
car interior [frame:1], windshield [frame:2], hat [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, uncertainty, nighttime journey; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on faces, high contrast between dark interior and faint exterior light

Two people are in a vehicle at night, looking ahead as one speaks about recognizing a bridge and a cutoff ahead. The scene is dark, with only the road and their faces faintly visible through the windshield.

“That bridge. I've seen it before. But when? There's a cutoff a little ways ahead, just around the turn. There's a big house up there, I think. You know this section? Have you been here before? There's a cutoff.” 23:13 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 23:13 (passage 23:12–23:36); US record: No renewal found

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