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Fear in the Night · Beat 181 · permalink

Living room

31:38–32:02 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:4131:41Frame at 31:4831:48Frame at 31:5431:54Frame at 32:0032:00

Play from 31:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 512–519. 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:3
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, short hair visible
  • man in suit, visible in profile, dark hair visible
  • man in suit, seen in close-up, neat haircut, serious expression visible
  • woman seated at table, partially visible, light-colored dress visible
  • Ben (named at t:31:39): unseen speaker audible
  • Claire (named at t:31:39): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand in a hallway with mirrors. [frame:1]
  • One man walks forward, partially obscuring the other. [frame:2]
  • A woman sits at a table with tea service in a dim room. [frame:3]
  • A man in a suit is shown in close-up, looking off-camera. [frame:4]
Seen
mirror, tea service, lamp with dark shade, table with white cloth
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: social ritual, domestic space, unspoken tension; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on faces, use of mirrors to create depth

Two men in suits are seen in a hallway with mirrors; one is visible in a close-up. The scene cuts to a dimly lit room with a table set for tea and a woman seated. A voice calls out names and invites them to tea.

“Ben, Claire, come on down and have some tea.” 31:39 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 31:41 (passage 31:38–32:02); US record: No renewal found

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