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Fear in the Night · Beat 204 · permalink

Private office

39:35–39:55 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 39:3639:36Frame at 39:3839:38Frame at 39:4839:48Frame at 39:5239:52

Play from 39:35 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 86 · shots 580–584. 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:3
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man lying down, face up, mid-adult, visible from chest up visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds a small bottle and administers a substance to a man lying down. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit leans closer to the lying man, continuing the administration. [frame:4]
Seen
small bottle or vial [frame:3], dark suit [frame:3], tie [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, clinical; themes: medical intervention, concern for health, unspecified trauma; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on two figures, high contrast black and white

A man in a suit administers a substance to another man lying down, in a dark interior. The transcript suggests concern about the recipient's health and mentions 'death pictures' as a possible cause.

“Out like a light. What do you suppose did? Those death pictures? Things like this sure get him. I noticed that before. He's not well.” 39:48 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 39:36 (passage 39:35–39:55); US record: No renewal found

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