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Fear in the Night · Beat 205 · permalink

Private office

39:55–40:17 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:0040:00Frame at 40:1140:11

Play from 39:55 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 87 · shots 585–586. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing, leaning over another man visible
  • man lying down, face up, wearing light shirt visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing near desk visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near desk, facing p3 visible
  • man in dark suit, reaching toward desk visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit leans over another man lying down. [frame:1]
  • Three men stand around a desk in a dim room; one reaches out toward the desk. [frame:2]
Also said
“Thanks Warner.” 40:12 · “Have a scene. Okay.” 40:13
Seen
desk [frame:2], hanging lamp [frame:2], fedora hat [frame:2], dark suit [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: care, concern, urban interior; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, static camera, noir-style framing

Two men are shown in a dim interior; one tends to another lying down. A separate shot shows three men in a room with a desk and hanging lamp, one reaching out. No names are spoken that identify individuals.

“He'll be all right.” 40:05 · “As soon as I get them home.” 40:07 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 40:00 (passage 39:55–40:17); US record: No renewal found

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