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Fear in the Night · Beat 174 · permalink

Hallway

30:42–31:03 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:5330:53

Play from 30:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 75 · shots 503–503. 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, medium build, short dark hair visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back, walking away visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands in a hallway, looking toward the camera. [frame:1]
Seen
chandelier, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, memory, urgency; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting

A man in a suit is visible in a hallway, speaking urgently as another man walks away in the background. The transcript includes a fragmented recollection and a plea to stop an action.

“That must be the one I propped him up in after I...” 30:43 · “No, don't! Yeah, give me a chance. Cut it out.” 30:53 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 30:53 (passage 30:42–31:03); US record: No renewal found

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