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Fear in the Night · Beat 164 · permalink

Living room

28:38–28:41 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:4028:40

Play from 28:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 481–481. 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
  • silhouetted figure, wearing dark clothing, seen from behind, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A person leans into a doorway. [frame:1]
Seen
portrait [frame:1], sconce [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, domestic space as site of mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, shadowy composition, medium shot framing the figure at the doorway

A person is seen from behind, leaning into a doorway in a dimly lit interior. The scene includes a wall-mounted portrait and a sconce, suggesting a domestic or formal setting.

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 28:40 (passage 28:38–28:41); US record: No renewal found

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