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Fear in the Night · Beat 238 · permalink

Bedroom

46:50–48:30 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names 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 47:4047:40

Play from 46:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 112 · shots 636–636. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man lying in bed, visible in dim light, wearing light-colored pajamas or shirt visible, audible
  • Cliff (named at t:46:57): unseen, off-screen voice audible
Seen happening
  • A man lies in bed and speaks with Cliff off-screen. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm licked. I'd rather not even talk about it. You might as well have let me jump. I'm dead inside already.” 47:30 · “Stuck his head in the door. Wanted to know if my light had gone out, too.” 48:09
Seen
bed [frame:1], pillow [frame:1], light source (off-screen, casting shadow) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, introspective, somber; themes: isolation, guilt, suspicion, mental distress; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on the man in bed, high contrast shadows, static camera

A man lies in bed, speaking with someone off-screen about an arrest and a suicide attempt. The conversation reveals tension and confusion over a recent event and a neighbor’s unexpected visit.

“Cliff?” 46:57 · “What about the arrest, Cliff?” 47:13 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 47:40 (passage 46:50–48:30); US record: No renewal found

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