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Fear in the Night · Beat 258 · permalink

Private office

57:13–57:14 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 57:1457:14

Play from 57:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 684–684. 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 in suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build, dark hair visible
Seen
chandelier or hanging light fixture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or contemplative; themes: isolation, suspense; style notes: close-up profile shot, high-contrast lighting, shallow depth of field, noir-style composition

A man in a suit and tie is shown in profile, looking toward the right of the frame. The setting appears to be an interior space with soft lighting and a blurred background.

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 57:14 (passage 57:13–57:14); US record: No renewal found

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