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Fear in the Night · Beat 116 · permalink

Vehicle interior

24:03–24:06 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 24:0524:05

Play from 24:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 393–393. 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 driving, wearing a hat and dark coat, visible from chest up visible
  • woman in back seat, dark hair, wearing dark clothing, partially obscured visible
  • man in back seat, wearing dark suit, visible from shoulders up visible
  • young person in front passenger seat, light-colored coat, arms crossed, looking forward visible
Seen
steering wheel [frame:1], car interior [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confinement, nocturnal travel; style notes: tight framing on occupants, high-contrast lighting from within vehicle, no visible exterior

Four people are seated inside a vehicle at night; one drives while the others sit in the back. The scene is lit by interior vehicle lighting, showing no external environment.

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 24:05 (passage 24:03–24:06); US record: No renewal found

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