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Fear in the Night · Beat 162 · permalink

Bedroom

28:04–28:18 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:0528:05Frame at 28:0828:08Frame at 28:1428:14Frame at 28:1728:17

Play from 28:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 472–476. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • lying in bed, partially covered by a blanket, appears to be a woman visible
  • standing in doorway, wearing dark clothing, silhouette visible visible
Seen
bed [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], wall decoration [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, intrusion, vulnerability; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing

A person lies in bed in a dimly lit room while another figure stands in the doorway. The scene remains static across four frames, with no visible movement or dialogue.

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 28:05 (passage 28:04–28:18); US record: No renewal found

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