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Fear in the Night · Beat 263 · permalink

Hallway

57:58–58:36 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:1458:14Frame at 58:3358:33

Play from 57:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 125 · shots 689–690. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
dark evidence: t:58:27
People
  • older man, balding, wearing glasses and a dark suit with patterned tie visible, audible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing a textured jacket and tie visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, visible in background doorway visible
Seen happening
  • p1 and p2 stand facing each other in a hallway with mirrors [frame:2]
Also said
“Since shortly before dark. I got in while you were at the funeral. Who'd you bring with you?” 58:27 · “Just this.” 58:33
Seen
hallway with mirrors [frame:1], chandelier [frame:2], doorway with figures in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, memory, intrusion; style notes: medium two-shot, symmetrical framing with mirrors, high-contrast lighting

Two men confront each other in a hallway; one asks how the other arrived and how long he has been there. The second man replies he entered before dark while the first was at a funeral and brought only a small object.

“How'd you get here?” 58:11 · “You showed me the way, didn't you?” 58:12 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 58:14 (passage 57:58–58:36); US record: No renewal found

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