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Fear in the Night · Beat 216 · permalink

New hotel commodore

44:05–44:08 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 44:0644:06

Play from 44:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 96 · shots 610–610. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
New Hotel Commodore (hotel lobby, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person standing near hotel entrance, dark clothing, indistinct features visible
Seen
{'item': 'white car', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'New Hotel Commodore sign', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'streetlamp', 'frame': 1}
On screen
NEW HOTEL COMMODORE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: urban setting, hotel exterior, mid-century transportation; style notes: black-and-white, static wide shot, period architecture and vehicle

A white car is parked in front of the New Hotel Commodore, with a person standing near the entrance. The scene is exterior and appears to be from a mid-20th-century urban setting.

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 44:06 (passage 44:05–44:08); US record: No renewal found

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