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Fear in the Night · Beat 159 · permalink

Living room

26:59–27:18 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:0627:06Frame at 27:1527:15Frame at 27:1827:18

Play from 26:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 453–455. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark suit visible, audible
  • woman wearing a coat, arms crossed visible
  • man in dark suit, seen from side/back visible
  • woman in dark dress, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A group stands in a doorway, looking into a room. [frame:1]
  • The man in the fedora gestures while speaking to the woman in the coat. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit walks toward a fireplace. [frame:3]
Also said
“Let's see what gives with the fireplace. That's a break. It's a gas log. Hunk yourself down. Dry out. Before you catch a chill. Oh, I am tired.” 27:13
Seen
fedora, coat, gas fireplace, wallpapered wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and cautious; themes: intrusion, suspense, temporary refuge; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, noir-style framing with shadows and depth

A group of people, including a man in a fedora and a woman in a coat, enter a dimly lit interior space and discuss their presence there. One man moves toward a fireplace, which is noted to be gas-powered, as they prepare to rest.

“Looks like they've been away a long time.” 27:03 · “Your being a detective comes in handy. In case anybody shows up, we won't get into trouble for crashing in like this. Yeah, yeah.” 27:07 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 27:06 (passage 26:59–27:18); US record: No renewal found

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