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1:06:28–1:06:31 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:291:06:29

Play from 1:06:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 143 · shots 792–792. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Man wearing a light-colored shirt and dark trousers; visible from waist up, facing slightly right. visible
  • Figure in dark clothing, possibly wearing a hat; face partially illuminated, eyes reflecting light. visible
Seen
flashlight or small lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: confrontation, secrecy, uncertainty; style notes: High-contrast chiaroscuro lighting, tight framing, and deep shadows create a noir aesthetic. The use of darkness to obscure context heightens mystery.

Two figures stand close in near-total darkness, one holding what appears to be a flashlight or small lamp. The scene is dimly lit with high contrast, revealing only partial silhouettes and facial features.

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 1:06:29 (passage 1:06:28–1:06:31); US record: No renewal found

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