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Fear in the Night · Beat 244 · permalink

Bedroom

50:56–51:26 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:0151:01Frame at 51:1351:13Frame at 51:1951:19Frame at 51:2451:24

Play from 50:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 114 · shots 654–657. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in white shirt, lying in bed, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
  • man in light shirt, patterned tie, suspenders, standing, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
Also said
“What?” 51:19 · “I was just remembering something in the deathbed statement Mrs. Belknap gave to Warner. You, uh... You say you chatted with this fellow once in a while. What about? Oh, sports, politics...” 51:22
Seen
bed with dark headboard [frame:1], bedside lamp with shade [frame:1], patterned necktie [frame:2], suspenders [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and uncertain; themes: memory, doubt, interrogation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on characters, static camera emphasizing dialogue

A man in a white shirt lies in bed while another man in a shirt, tie, and suspenders stands near a door; dialogue suggests uncertainty about a past event and references a deathbed statement. The setting is a dimly lit bedroom with a bedside lamp and dark headboard.

“I can see you're having trouble giving me a definite answer. You don't remember it either way. Well, what difference does it make? The door must have closed. He went away and I went to sleep.” 50:57 · “and he kept saying, you're tired. So what? Eyes fixed and glassy as though he were mentally unbalanced.” 51:10 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 51:01 (passage 50:56–51:26); US record: No renewal found

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