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Fear in the Night · Beat 113 · permalink

Vehicle interior

23:42–23:59 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; 2 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 23:4423:44Frame at 23:5023:50Frame at 23:5323:53Frame at 23:5823:58

Play from 23:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 385–390. 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 wearing a hat and dark tie, visible from chest up, in driver's seat visible
  • person in passenger seat, back visible, wearing light-colored top visible
Also said
“And the more frightened I got.” 23:57
Seen
car interior [frame:1], rearview mirror [frame:1], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: fear, uncertainty, journey into unknown; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight close-ups on the driver's face, shallow depth of field emphasizing isolation

Two people are in a car at night; one is driving while the other gives directions. The driver appears tense as they approach a location marked by two big posts.

“Are you gonna get us more lost than ever? No, keep going. You'll come to it. Two big posts and then turn the car between them.” 23:43 · “I didn't know myself how I knew that. But the closer we came, the heart of my heart pounded.” 23:43 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 23:44 (passage 23:42–23:59); US record: No renewal found

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