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Fear in the Night · Beat 185 · permalink

Living room

32:11–32:22 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:1332:13Frame at 32:1932:19

Play from 32:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 523–524. 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:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing dark dress or robe visible, audible
Seen happening
  • man holds tray with cups and speaks to woman [frame:1]
  • woman holds large container and faces man [frame:2]
Seen
tray with cups, large container (possibly pitcher or thermos), covered furniture (chairs, table), patterned wallpaper
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and subdued; themes: domestic tension, isolation, waiting; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on characters, use of shadows and covered furniture suggests noir or suspense style

A man in a suit carries a tray with cups while speaking to a woman holding a large container; they are in a dimly lit room with patterned wallpaper and covered furniture. The transcript indicates he plans to return items to the kitchen and mentions rain, suggesting an indoor setting during or after rainfall.

“I'll take these back to the kitchen. I'll take them.” 32:13 · “The rain ought to let up soon. Meanwhile, catch yourselves a nap. Mm-hmm.” 32:17 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 32:13 (passage 32:11–32:22); US record: No renewal found

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