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Fear in the Night · Beat 135 · permalink

Vehicle interior

24:55–25:00 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:5624:56Frame at 24:5924:59

Play from 24:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 412–413. 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 coat, visible in driver's seat visible
  • man in passenger seat, wearing a hat, wiping his face with a handkerchief visible
  • woman with dark hair, seated behind driver, looking forward visible
  • man in back seat, wearing a suit, turning his head to look back visible
Seen happening
  • A man in the passenger seat wipes his face with a handkerchief. [frame:1]
  • A man in the back seat turns his head to look behind. [frame:2]
Seen
steering wheel, handkerchief, car interior
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: escape, urgency, confinement; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing inside vehicle, high contrast black-and-white

Four people are inside a vehicle at night; one speaks a line suggesting urgency. The interior is dimly lit, and the driver is focused on the road while others appear tense.

“Let's make a dash for it.” 24:57 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 24:56 (passage 24:55–25:00); US record: No renewal found

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