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Fear in the Night · Beat 26 · permalink

Private office

5:35–5:57 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:365:36Frame at 5:415:41Frame at 5:505:50

Play from 5:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 114–116. 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, adult, medium build, wearing white tank top and dark trousers visible
Seen happening
  • man adjusts clothing near sink [frame:1]
  • man looks at mirror while adjusting shirt [frame:2]
  • man stands facing camera with hands on hips [frame:3]
Seen
sink [frame:1], mirror [frame:2], towel rack [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, introspective; themes: isolation, self-reflection, ritual; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing, static camera, noir aesthetic

A man in a white tank top is seen in a dimly lit room with a sink and mirror; he adjusts his clothing and looks toward the camera. The transcript contains only the words 'I.' and 'Amen.' with no clear connection to the visuals.

“I.” 5:35 · “Amen.” 5:48 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 5:36 (passage 5:35–5:57); US record: No renewal found

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