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Fear in the Night · Beat 213 · permalink

Private office

42:54–43:35 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:5842:58Frame at 43:0543:05Frame at 43:2143:21

Play from 42:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 603–605. 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, short dark hair, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a small metallic object in his hands. [frame:1]
  • The man looks down at a desk or table. [frame:2]
  • The man looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. [frame:3]
Seen
small metallic object, dark suit, tie, window with curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, personal crisis; style notes: close-up and medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

A man in a suit is shown in close-up and medium shots, handling a small object; a transcript line contains a stuttered utterance. No names, locations, or time of day are established in the frames or transcript.

“I'm. I'm.” 42:55 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 42:58 (passage 42:54–43:35); US record: No renewal found

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