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Fear in the Night · Beat 197 · permalink

Private office

36:37–37:01 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:3936:39Frame at 36:4536:45Frame at 36:4836:48Frame at 37:0037:00

Play from 36:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 564–569. 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, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, medium build, short hair, serious expression visible, audible
  • man in dark jacket, heavier build, dark hair, expressive face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The second man listens intently as the first recounts the events. [frame:2]
  • The second man gestures while speaking about the case. [frame:3]
  • The first man looks down, appearing contemplative after the conversation. [frame:4]
Mentioned
  • The woman's testimony about Bob Kloon changed the direction of the investigation. [t:36:59]
Also said
“We sent out an alarm for Kloon. Then Wednesday, Mrs. Belinac came too. The first thing she asked was, is Bob all right? He didn't kill Bob Kloon, did he?” 36:59 · “We find Kloon's body propped up behind one of those mirrored doors upstairs. Been stabbed with an awl. She died that night. Well, it went our case.” 37:02
Seen
mirrored door [frame:4], suit and tie [frame:1, frame:4], dark jacket [frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: crime investigation, suspense, unreliable testimony; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, dramatic lighting emphasizing facial expressions

Two men discuss a murder case involving a heist, a chase, and a body found behind a mirrored door. One man recounts how a woman's testimony changed the investigation after she woke up and asked about Bob Kloon.

“Clue knew that Belknap got a lot on his safe when he left for Mexico. He came here, started to heist it, and Mrs. Belknap caught him.” 36:41 · “She ran out afraid he'd kill her. He got his car chased her down the road and ran over. Pretty brutal.” 36:47 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 36:39 (passage 36:37–37:01); US record: No renewal found

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