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Fear in the Night · Beat 182 · permalink

Private office

32:02–32:05 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 32:0332:03

Play from 32:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 520–520. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated in chair, wearing dark suit, facing right visible
  • man seated at table, wearing dark suit, facing left visible
  • man standing behind table, wearing dark suit, facing forward visible
Seen
lamp with dark shade, bottle on table, table covered with cloth, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, noir atmosphere; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing

A man sits at a table with a lamp and a bottle while another man sits in a chair nearby; a third man stands behind the table. The room has patterned wallpaper and dim lighting.

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 32:03 (passage 32:02–32:05); US record: No renewal found

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