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Fear in the Night · Beat 198 · permalink

Kitchen

37:01–37:22 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 37:0837:08Frame at 37:1837:18

Play from 37:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 83 · shots 570–571. 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 a suit, standing, mid-adult visible
  • man in dark jacket, seated, mid-adult, holding a knife visible
  • man in suit, seated, mid-adult, facing p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a kitchen while two others sit at a table. [frame:1]
  • One seated man holds a knife and speaks to the other seated man. [frame:2]
Seen
table with white cloth [frame:1], wooden chairs [frame:1], knife [frame:2], window with curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, domestic space as site of tension; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Three men are in a kitchen; one stands while two sit at a table. One seated man gestures with a knife while speaking to the other seated man.

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 37:08 (passage 37:01–37:22); US record: No renewal found

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