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Fear in the Night · Beat 209 · permalink

Living room

41:00–41:05 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:0241:02

Play from 41:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 590–590. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated, wearing suit, reading a paper visible
  • man standing, wearing dark coat and hat, near doorway visible
  • partially visible person, possibly seated, wearing light-colored clothing visible
Seen
{'item': 'armchair', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'lamp with white shade', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'doorway with double doors', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'tall decorative plant or sculpture', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'paper or document being held', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and static; themes: suspense, domestic space as site of tension; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, deep focus, noir-style composition

A man sits reading in a dimly lit room while another man stands near a doorway; a third person is partially visible in the background. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 41:02 (passage 41:00–41:05); US record: No renewal found

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