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Fear in the Night · Beat 196 · permalink

Kitchen

36:14–36:37 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:2036:20Frame at 36:3236:32

Play from 36:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 562–563. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, seated left, smoking visible
  • man in dark coat, seated center, leaning forward visible, audible
  • man in suit, seated right, facing p2 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three men sit around a table in a kitchen. [frame:1]
  • Two men face each other in close-up, one speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“blood and hair in the tires” 36:21 · “New room, eh?” 36:36
Seen
table with white cloth, wooden chairs, kitchen counter with dishes, window with curtains, cigarette
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: crime investigation, confession, suspicion; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces, high contrast black-and-white, mid-century interior design

Three men are seated around a table in a kitchen, discussing a crime involving a car with blood and hair, a broken safe, and a mirror room. One man offers to show another the upstairs room.

“Kind of gets him, doesn't it?” 36:14 · “I did it to her.” 36:19 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 36:20 (passage 36:14–36:37); US record: No renewal found

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