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Fear in the Night · Beat 180 · permalink

Hallway

31:29–31:38 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 31:3431:34

Play from 31:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 511–511. 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 a dark suit, medium build, facing right visible
  • man in a lighter coat, medium build, facing left, gesturing with right hand visible
Seen
mirrored walls [frame:1], door [frame:1], ceiling light fixture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, enclosed space; style notes: tight framing, high-contrast lighting, symmetrical composition with mirrors, suggesting noir influence

Two men stand in a narrow, dimly lit corridor with mirrored walls; one man gestures toward a door while the other faces him. The setting appears to be an interior hallway, possibly in a hotel or apartment building, with no visible time-of-day indicators.

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 31:34 (passage 31:29–31:38); US record: No renewal found

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