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Fear in the Night · Beat 28 · permalink

Bedroom

5:59–6:46 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:046:04Frame at 6:166:16Frame at 6:286:28Frame at 6:446:44

Play from 5:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 118–130. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man, mid-30s, muscular build, wearing white undershirt and dark trousers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man looks at his open palm with a concerned expression. [frame:1]
  • The man turns away, reaching into a closet or wardrobe. [frame:2]
  • The man stands in the center of the room, looking toward the camera with a tense posture. [frame:3]
  • The man turns his back to the camera, facing a window with light coming through. [frame:4]
Also said
“That button wasn't mine. The key wasn't mine.” 6:19 · “A jackhammer started pounding inside my head. I had to see if the outside world was still there.” 6:39
Seen
white undershirt [frame:1], dark trousers [frame:3], closet or wardrobe [frame:2], framed photograph on dresser [frame:3], window with curtains [frame:4], wall-mounted object (possibly a coat rack or hat hook) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, paranoid, introspective; themes: identity crisis, reality vs. dream, guilt and paranoia; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast shadows, tight framing on the character, minimal set decoration suggesting a confined psychological space

A man in a white undershirt is seen in a dimly lit room, examining his hands and clothing, then turning toward a window. He speaks about finding unfamiliar objects and questioning his sanity, suggesting he is trying to reconcile a dream with reality.

“There they were.” 6:01 · “things out of the dream I never seen them before” 6:05 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 6:04 (passage 5:59–6:46); US record: No renewal found

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