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Fear in the Night · Beat 270 · permalink

Private office

1:01:36–1:01:54 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:391:01:39Frame at 1:01:481:01:48

Play from 1:01:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 125 · shots 720–721. 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, middle-aged, wearing a patterned suit jacket and tie, neat hair visible, audible
  • man, face in extreme close-up, eyes wide, wearing what appears to be a hat or headgear visible
Also said
“You're tired Tired That horrible curtain closed over me again” 61:42
Seen
gun, hat or headgear
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, claustrophobic; themes: psychological breakdown, confrontation, loss of control; style notes: tight framing, high-contrast lighting, extreme close-up on face to emphasize psychological distress

A man in a suit speaks to someone off-screen while holding a gun; a second man’s face is shown in extreme close-up, eyes wide. The transcript includes a command to surrender the gun and a reference to a 'horrible curtain' closing over the speaker.

“Just let go.” 61:36 · “Give the gun to me, Grayson.” 61:40 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 1:01:39 (passage 1:01:36–1:01:54); US record: No renewal found

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