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Fear in the Night · Beat 172 · permalink

Hallway

29:44–30:22 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 30:0330:03

Play from 29:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 497–497. 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 suit, mid-30s, average build, dark hair, standing on left visible
  • man in suit, mid-30s, average build, dark hair, standing on right visible
  • unseen person, possibly female (referred to as 'her') mentioned
  • Lou (named at t:29:56): unseen person, named Lou mentioned, audible
Also said
“What are you two doing up there? Keep her downstairs. Keep her downstairs. Be on a minute, Lou. Watch the tea in the kitchen. I got some water boiling. All right, but I wish you'd stop poking around.” 29:56 · “Look.” 30:14
Seen
mirrors [frame:1], hallway [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, secrecy, domestic tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, symmetrical framing with mirrors, high contrast lighting

Two men are in a hallway with mirrors; one speaks while the other listens. A third person is mentioned but not visible, and instructions are given about keeping someone downstairs and watching tea.

“Wipe it, bro.” 29:45 · “Have you got it?” 29:51 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 30:03 (passage 29:44–30:22); US record: No renewal found

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