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Fear in the Night · Beat 160 · permalink

Living room

27:18–27:49 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:1927:19Frame at 27:2627:26Frame at 27:3827:38Frame at 27:4827:48

Play from 27:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 73 · shots 456–466. 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, dark suit, medium build, visible in profile and back visible
  • woman, light-colored dress or robe, visible from back and side visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a fireplace in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • The woman stands beside the man near the fireplace. [frame:2]
  • The man moves toward a lamp while the woman remains near the fireplace. [frame:3]
  • The man stands beside a lamp, partially obscuring it. [frame:4]
Seen
fireplace, lamp with dark shade, vase with flowers on mantel, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: domestic tension, comfort offered under stress; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, static camera, high contrast shadows

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room with a fireplace; the woman speaks to the man, who then moves toward a lamp. The transcript indicates she offers to get tea from the kitchen.

“Come on, Daddy, share the warmth.” 27:41 · “I'll scout the kitchen. Some hot tea wouldn't hurt you a bit.” 27:44 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 27:19 (passage 27:18–27:49); US record: No renewal found

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