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Fear in the Night · Beat 25 · permalink

Private office

5:22–5:35 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote 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 5:255:25Frame at 5:315:31

Play from 5:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 112–113. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a tank top, visible from the side visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a tank top, seen from behind, bending over a sink visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tank top stands facing another man. [frame:1]
  • A man bends over a sink. [frame:2]
Seen
tank top [frame:1], sink [frame:2], towel rack [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: self-examination, isolation; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up, static framing

A man in a tank top examines his arm while another man bends over a sink in a dim room. No names or specific time of day are established.

“Must have scratched myself.” 5:27 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 5:25 (passage 5:22–5:35); US record: No renewal found

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