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Fear in the Night · Beat 222 · permalink

Hotel entrance

44:25–44:26 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:2644:26

Play from 44:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 616–616. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hotel entrance (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult, wearing a dark coat and a light-colored patterned skirt, carrying a bag or bundle visible
Seen happening
  • A person enters a doorway marked 'HOTEL D'AMBOISE'. [frame:1]
Seen
doorway [frame:1], mat with text 'HOTEL D'AMBOISE' [frame:1], coat [frame:1], patterned skirt [frame:1]
On screen
HOTEL D'AMBOISE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: arrival, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, deep shadows, single figure entering a dark space

A person in a coat and patterned skirt enters a dark doorway marked 'HOTEL D'AMBOISE'. The scene is lit by a single strong light from the front, casting deep shadows.

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 44:26 (passage 44:25–44:26); US record: No renewal found

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