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Fear in the Night · Beat 149 · permalink

Sidewalk

25:53–25:54 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 25:5425:54

Play from 25:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 429–429. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a hat and coat, viewed from behind visible
  • wearing a skirt and cardigan, standing to the left visible
  • wearing a hat and dark coat, standing to the right near the door visible
Seen happening
  • A person opens a door while two others stand nearby. [frame:1]
Seen
door [frame:1], streetlamp [frame:1], brick wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, nocturnal encounter; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, high contrast shadows

A group of three people stands near a door in a dimly lit exterior setting. One person is opening the door while another watches from the side.

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 25:54 (passage 25:53–25:54); US record: No renewal found

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