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1:00:47–1:01:12 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:481:00:48Frame at 1:00:521:00:52Frame at 1:01:041:01:04Frame at 1:01:101:01:10

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Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 125 · shots 709–713. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man, mid-adult, holding a stopwatch, visible in close-up visible
  • man, mid-adult, face in close-up, looking upward, sweating visible
  • man, seated, wearing a hat and coat, in shadow visible
  • man, standing, wearing a hat and coat, in shadow visible
  • older man, wearing glasses and suit, holding a stopwatch, smiling visible
  • back of a person's head, visible in frame:4 visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds a stopwatch with its face illuminated. [frame:1]
  • A man looks upward with a strained expression. [frame:2]
  • Two men in hats observe a seated man in a dim room with equipment. [frame:3]
  • An older man holds a stopwatch and speaks to someone off-screen. [frame:4]
Seen
stopwatch [frame:1], hat [frame:3], coat [frame:3], glasses [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, observation, time pressure; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close-ups on faces and objects, medium shots in shadowed interiors

A man holds a stopwatch while another man looks upward; two men observe a seated man in a dim room; an older man holds a stopwatch and speaks to someone off-screen. No names are spoken, and no place is clearly identifiable beyond an interior setting.

“You don't want to kill me. Look up. Look up, please. See? Just 30 seconds. And I'm sure I can make you understand. Just a few seconds. Shall we take him now?” 60:47 · “We've got to let him finish. We've got to have proof for a jury that he can actually put him under. Just 15 seconds, that's all. That isn't much, is it?” 61:02 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 1:00:48 (passage 1:00:47–1:01:12); US record: No renewal found

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