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Fear in the Night · Beat 296 · permalink

Road

1:05:13–1:05:18 Registered 1947

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

Frame at 1:05:141:05:14Frame at 1:05:171:05:17

Play from 1:05:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 138 · shots 771–772. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat, visible in profile visible
  • man wearing glasses, visible in profile visible
Seen happening
  • A car drives along a dark road lined with trees. [frame:1]
  • Two men are shown in close-up inside a vehicle, looking forward. [frame:2]
Seen
car [frame:1], hat [frame:2], glasses [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: nocturnal journey, suspense; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight close-up framing, night exterior shot with deep shadows

Two men are shown in a close-up inside a vehicle at night; one wears a hat and the other glasses. A separate shot shows a car driving on a dark road lined with trees.

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 1:05:14 (passage 1:05:13–1:05:18); US record: No renewal found

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