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Fear in the Night · Beat 239 · permalink

Bedroom

48:30–49:04 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:3248:32Frame at 48:4148:41Frame at 48:5648:56Frame at 49:0249:02

Play from 48:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 112 · shots 637–644. 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, mid-30s to 40s, wearing suspenders and a loosened tie, short dark hair visible, audible
  • man lying down, wearing light-colored shirt, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man in suspenders reaches toward a lamp on a nightstand. [frame:1]
  • The man in suspenders sits forward, looking down with a serious expression. [frame:2]
  • A man lies in bed, looking upward with a tense expression. [frame:3]
  • The man in suspenders leans forward again, appearing to speak intently. [frame:4]
Also said
“Now tell it to me step by step. Like to a six-year-old kid. Okay.” 48:42 · “Well, the guy's name was Berg. He'd been living in the room about, oh, a week or ten days before that. Used to see him in the elevator.” 48:48
Seen
lamp, nightstand, bed, suspenders, loosened tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: interrogation, memory, domestic space as site of tension; style notes: low-key lighting, tight close-ups, static camera emphasizing psychological pressure

A man in suspenders and a loosened tie is shown in a dimly lit room, speaking about another man named Berg who lived nearby. He recounts being in bed reading when an event occurred, as he is prompted to explain what happened step by step.

“I'd like to hear the rest of this. There isn't any rest of it. I've told you all there is. Never mind.” 48:32 · “Now, who was he? Did you know him?” 48:39 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 48:32 (passage 48:30–49:04); US record: No renewal found

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