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Fear in the Night · Beat 217 · permalink

Street

44:08–44:13 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:1144:11

Play from 44:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 97 · shots 611–611. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing dark coat and wide-brimmed hat, visible in profile visible
  • woman in light-colored dress and dark hat, looking up visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, pointing upward with right hand visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, visible behind p2, looking up visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people look upward together. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit points upward with his right hand. [frame:1]
Seen
wide-brimmed hats [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], street sign or pole structure in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, anticipatory; themes: suspense, collective attention, urban setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, group composition focused upward

A group of people on a street look upward together. One person gestures upward while others watch, as described in the transcript.

“Look, look.” 44:09 · “trying to make up his mind.” 44:10 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 44:11 (passage 44:08–44:13); US record: No renewal found

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