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Fear in the Night · Beat 152 · permalink

Sidewalk

26:00–26:07 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:0226:02Frame at 26:0426:04Frame at 26:0626:06

Play from 26:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 432–434. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a suit, tie, and fedora hat, middle-aged, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands outside at night, looking downcast. [frame:1]
  • The man remains standing, expression unchanged. [frame:2]
  • The man turns and walks toward a house entrance. [frame:3]
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1], house entrance with door and windows [frame:3], wall-mounted lantern [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: isolation, reluctance, domestic tension; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, medium close-up to medium shot, noir aesthetic

A man in a suit and hat stands outside at night, then walks toward a house entrance. A voice calls out to him, asking if he will stay out all day and to come inside.

“Ed, are you going to stay out there all day? Come on in.” 26:02 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 26:02 (passage 26:00–26:07); US record: No renewal found

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