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Fear in the Night · Beat 214 · permalink

Stone steps beside brick wall

43:35–43:51 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:4343:43

Play from 43:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 606–606. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone steps beside brick wall (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a dark suit jacket, light-colored trousers, and a tie; seated with legs extended visible
Seen
stone steps [frame:1], brick wall [frame:1], suit jacket [frame:1], tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, still; themes: isolation, contemplation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium shot, static frame, black-and-white film

A man sits on stone steps beside a brick wall, wearing a suit and tie. The scene is dimly lit with strong shadows, suggesting an interior or shaded exterior at an unknown time.

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 43:43 (passage 43:35–43:51); US record: No renewal found

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