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Fear in the Night · Beat 193 · permalink

Kitchen

34:28–35:37 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:2934:29Frame at 34:3234:32Frame at 34:5334:53Frame at 35:3035:30

Play from 34:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 549–556. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • Torrance (named at t:35:02): man in dark raincoat and hat, holding a gun visible, audible
  • Vince Grayson (named at t:35:04): man in suit, standing near window visible, audible
  • man in suit, standing near table visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man in raincoat enters through doorway holding a gun. [frame:1]
  • Man in raincoat points gun at two men in suits. [frame:3]
  • Man in raincoat lowers gun as one man moves a chair. [frame:4]
  • Men begin to move chairs around a table. [frame:4]
Also said
“Torrance is the name. My brother-in-law.” 35:02 · “There was a murder committed here last week. There was?” 35:21
Seen
raincoat, gun, kitchen table with cloth, wooden chairs, window with rain visible, doorway, wall-mounted light fixture, cabinet
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: authority, intrusion, secrecy, crime scene; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots, static camera, noir framing with shadows and doorway framing

Two men confront a third man in a raincoat who has entered a house; the man in the raincoat identifies himself as a deputy named Torrance and mentions a recent murder at the location. The setting is a kitchen with visible furniture and a window showing rain outside.

“I'll ask the questions. What are you two doing in here? You came in out of the rain. That suit you? Yeah.” 34:31 · “Identify yourselves and be quick about it.” 34:38 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 34:29 (passage 34:28–35:37); US record: No renewal found

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