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Fear in the Night · Beat 161 · permalink

Bedroom

27:49–28:04 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:5027:50Frame at 27:5327:53Frame at 27:5927:59Frame at 28:0228:02

Play from 27:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 467–471. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • lying in bed, covered by a blanket, face partially visible visible
  • Vince (named at t:27:55): man in dark suit, standing in doorway, holding a fire extinguisher visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit walks through a doorway holding a fire extinguisher. [frame:1]
  • The man stands in the doorway holding the fire extinguisher while a person lies in bed. [frame:3]
Seen
fire extinguisher [frame:1], bed [frame:2], round light fixture [frame:2], patterned wallpaper [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: confinement, threat, domestic danger; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing focused on doorway and bed

A person lies in bed while another man, addressed as Vince, stands in a doorway holding a fire extinguisher. The room is dimly lit with patterned wallpaper and a round light fixture visible.

“Better already.” 27:52 · “Vince, why don't you come over here with the fire?” 27:55 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 27:50 (passage 27:49–28:04); US record: No renewal found

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