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Fear in the Night · Beat 282 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:03:49–1:03:58 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:511:03:51Frame at 1:03:541:03:54Frame at 1:03:571:03:57

Play from 1:03:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 747–749. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat, visible in profile, driving visible
  • man wearing glasses, visible in profile, seated beside driver visible
Seen happening
  • a vehicle is seen from outside on a dark road [frame:1]
  • two men are visible inside the vehicle, one driving [frame:2]
  • the two men remain seated inside the vehicle [frame:3]
Seen
car [frame:1], white road line [frame:1], hat [frame:2], glasses [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: nocturnal journey, male companionship under stress; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on faces, low-key illumination

Two men are shown inside a vehicle at night; one drives while the other sits beside him. The vehicle is seen from outside on a dark road with a white line visible.

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 1:03:51 (passage 1:03:49–1:03:58); US record: No renewal found

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