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Fear in the Night · Beat 242 · permalink

Bedroom

50:16–50:34 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:2550:25

Play from 50:16 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 113 · shots 651–651. 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
  • unseen, voice heard audible
Seen
door, wall-mounted object
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, tense; themes: isolation, disturbance, sleep; style notes: low-key lighting, static frame, high contrast

A person speaks off-screen about someone who mumbled and left, allowing them to sleep. A dimly lit interior shows a door and a wall-mounted object.

“You're tired, and I woke you up. It's all right.” 50:17 · “I guess he kind of had a one-track mind. Used to mumbling to himself, maybe. Anyway, he finally closed the door and went away, and I dropped off to sleep. Now, wait a minute.” 50:22 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 50:25 (passage 50:16–50:34); US record: No renewal found

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