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Fear in the Night · Beat 240 · permalink

Bedroom

49:04–49:56 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:2349:23Frame at 49:4549:45Frame at 49:5149:51Frame at 49:5449:54

Play from 49:04 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 112 · shots 645–648. 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
Time of day
night evidence: t:49:17
People
  • man in bed, wearing pajamas, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • Harry Berg (named at t:49:26): man standing, wearing glasses, striped shirt, suspenders, holding candle visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man lies in bed in a dark room with a lamp on. [frame:1]
  • Harry Berg stands in the doorway holding a candle and a wall-mounted device. [frame:2]
  • The man in bed sits up and looks toward Harry Berg. [frame:3]
  • Harry Berg tests the wall switch while holding a candle. [frame:4]
Also said
“No, I just turned out the light. Oh, you did?” 49:39 · “The light in my room just went out. That's why I wanted to see you. I thought maybe the circuit was on. Your light working? Try it.” 49:43
Seen
candle, wall-mounted device, bed, lamp, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and quiet; themes: intrusion, suspicion, domestic unease; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, tight framing on characters, minimal set

A man in bed is visited by a neighbor who checks if the light is working after noticing it went out. The neighbor holds a candle and tests the wall switch while the man in bed watches.

“Just put the lamp out and got to sleep when I heard this knock on the door.” 49:17 · “Harry Berg from next door.” 49:26 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 49:23 (passage 49:04–49:56); US record: No renewal found

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