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Fear in the Night · Beat 243 · permalink

Bedroom

50:34–50:56 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:4250:42Frame at 50:5350:53

Play from 50:34 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 114 · shots 652–653. 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
  • woman, lying in bed, wearing light-colored nightwear, under covers visible
  • man, wearing shirt, tie, and suspenders, seated then standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits beside a woman in bed, facing her. [frame:1]
  • The man stands near a door, gesturing as if mimicking its closing motion. [frame:2]
Seen
bed, lamp, door, suspenders
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, questioning; themes: suspicion, memory, uncertainty; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium close-ups, static framing

A man and a woman are in a bedroom; the man sits beside the bed while the woman lies under covers. The man later stands near a door, appearing to demonstrate how it might close.

“Are you sure the door closed after him? Did you see it closed? Did you hear it closed?” 50:40 · “Did it go like this? Did it make a click? Or did it go like this? Without a click.” 50:48 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 50:42 (passage 50:34–50:56); US record: No renewal found

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