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Fear in the Night · Beat 298 · permalink

Road

1:05:24–1:05:30 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:251:05:25Frame at 1:05:281:05:28Frame at 1:05:301:05:30

Play from 1:05:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 140 · shots 774–776. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man wearing glasses and a dark coat, visible in driver’s seat visible
  • man in dark suit, visible in passenger seat visible
  • man in dark suit, visible in back seat visible
Seen happening
  • Three men are seated in a car at night, one pointing out the window. [frame:1]
  • A view from above shows a valley or town below, with a road winding through trees. [frame:2]
  • A car drives along a dark, curving road bordered by a guardrail. [frame:3]
Seen
car [frame:1, frame:3], guardrail [frame:3], trees [frame:2, frame:3], streetlight [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, nocturnal; themes: nocturnal journey, observation from height, isolation on road; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, wide-angle road shots, tight interior framing

A car drives along a dark, winding road at night; a passenger points out the window while speaking. The road is bordered by a guardrail and trees, with a distant view of a valley or town below.

“Look down there.” 65:25 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 1:05:25 (passage 1:05:24–1:05:30); US record: No renewal found

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