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Fear in the Night · Beat 13 · permalink

Private office

3:24–3:43 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:253:25Frame at 3:293:29Frame at 3:373:37Frame at 3:423:42

Play from 3:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 82–89. 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:3
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a patterned jacket and light shirt, tense expression visible
Seen happening
  • A man's face is shown in close-up, lit from below, with deep shadows. [frame:1]
  • The man's face is shown again, eyes wide, in near darkness. [frame:2]
  • The man is seen in silhouette moving through a dark room with vertical panels. [frame:3]
  • The man stands in a medium shot, wearing a patterned jacket, looking off-camera with a tense expression. [frame:4]
Seen
patterned jacket [frame:4], vertical wall panels [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: suspense, isolation, fear; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast shadows, tight framing on the face, medium shot for movement

A man is shown in close-up and medium shots in a dark, shadowed interior. He appears tense and is seen moving slightly in a dimly lit space.

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 3:25 (passage 3:24–3:43); US record: No renewal found

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