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Fear in the Night · Beat 199 · permalink

Kitchen

37:22–37:45 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:3337:33

Play from 37:22 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 572–572. 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 uniform, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man seated at table, dark jacket, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man seated on stool, dark jacket, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands at a table speaking to two seated men. [frame:1]
Also said
“All the dope's over at my chief's office.” 37:27 · “I'll have to tell the girls. We'll be gone for a while.” 37:27
Seen
dining table with white cloth [frame:1], wooden chairs [frame:1], kitchen counter with appliances [frame:1], window with curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: investigation, collaboration, domestic space as workplace; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, typical of 1940s noir interiors

Three men are in a kitchen; one in uniform speaks about evidence at his chief's office, and another agrees to accompany him. The uniformed man says he will inform 'the girls' they will be gone for a while.

“Did you get anything on the real killer?” 37:27 · “Practically everything except the guy himself.” 37:27 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 37:33 (passage 37:22–37:45); US record: No renewal found

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