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Fear in the Night · Beat 154 · permalink

Private office

26:26–26:44 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes 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 26:2726:27Frame at 26:3326:33Frame at 26:3526:35Frame at 26:4226:42

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 443–448. 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:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a coat and skirt, appears mid-30s visible
  • woman, wavy hair, wearing a coat, appears mid-30s visible
  • man, wearing a suit and fedora, appears 40s visible, audible
  • man, wearing a suit and hat, appears 50s visible
Seen happening
  • The group stands together in a hallway near a staircase. [frame:2]
  • The group moves toward a door. [frame:4]
Seen
staircase, door, coats, fedora hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: suspense, survival, group dynamics; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, static camera, noir aesthetic

Two women and two men stand in a dimly lit interior space with a staircase; one man speaks to the group about finding shelter from the cold. The group then moves toward a door.

“Hello, anybody home? Don't do that!” 26:27 · “It's cold, he's shaking. So are you. Let's find a place to dry out before you catch cold.” 26:30 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 26:27 (passage 26:26–26:44); US record: No renewal found

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