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Fear in the Night · Beat 234 · permalink

Living room

45:37–46:36 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:0746:07

Play from 45:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 110 · shots 632–632. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Cliff (named at t:45:47): man in dark suit and tie, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Betty (named at t:45:47): woman in light suit, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Vince (named at t:46:00): man in dark jacket, seated, head down, mid-adult visible
Also said
“Take Lil home. But don't tell her anything about that. Just say that I thought it was better if I stayed here with Vince tonight. He's not feeling well. Okay.” 45:56 · “Cliff, whatever it is that's come between us... Promise me you'll help him. You go on now. And take care of Lil.” 46:12
Seen
framed picture on wall [frame:1], sofa or couch [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: domestic tension, unspoken conflict, duty vs. emotion; style notes: medium two-shot with dark lighting and high contrast, focused on character interaction; background figure adds narrative weight

A man and a woman stand facing each other in a room while another man sits slumped in the background; the woman is told to leave with someone named Lil while the man stays with Vince, who is unwell. A loud noise occurs at the end of the beat.

“Charlie, don't.” 45:44 · “He won't try it again, Betty. Just keep that thought. But why, Cliff? Why? Never mind now.” 45:47 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 46:07 (passage 45:37–46:36); US record: No renewal found

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