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Fear in the Night · Beat 30 · permalink

Street

6:49–7:06 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:516:51Frame at 6:556:55Frame at 6:596:59Frame at 7:037:03

Play from 6:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 132–135. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, mid-30s, average build, wearing a white tank top visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans out of a window looking down at the street. [frame:1]
  • The street below is dark, with parked cars and streetlights visible. [frame:2]
  • A car is parked on the street with its headlights off. [frame:3]
  • The man continues to look down from the window. [frame:4]
Also said
“The same characters, hounding around.” 7:02
Seen
window, tank top, street, parked car
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and observant; themes: urban isolation, repetition of daily life, nocturnal observation; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, static medium shots, focus on urban night setting

A man in a tank top leans from a window overlooking a street at night. The transcript describes the street below as unchanged from the previous night, with familiar traffic and people.

“The street below look the same as it did last night. The same greasy spoon where I eat now and then.” 6:52 · “The same traffic noises.” 7:00 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 6:51 (passage 6:49–7:06); US record: No renewal found

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