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Fear in the Night · Beat 171 · permalink

Hallway

29:41–29:44 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 29:4329:43

Play from 29:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 496–496. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, facing camera, medium build, short hair visible
  • man in dark suit, back to camera, medium build, dark hair visible
Seen
mirrors [frame:1], overhead lighting [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confined; themes: confinement, duality, suspense; style notes: low-key lighting, symmetrical framing with mirrors creating depth, noir aesthetic

Two men stand in a hallway with mirrors; one faces the camera, the other has his back turned. The hallway is dimly lit with overhead lights and lined with mirrors reflecting their figures.

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 29:43 (passage 29:41–29:44); US record: No renewal found

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