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Fear in the Night · Beat 31 · permalink

Bedroom

7:06–7:27 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 7:077:07Frame at 7:137:13Frame at 7:167:16Frame at 7:257:25

Play from 7:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 136–141. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing white undershirt and dark trousers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man stands near window, holding a gun. [frame:1]
  • Man lowers gun, looks down. [frame:2]
  • Man turns slightly, still holding gun. [frame:3]
  • Man sits on bed, head bowed. [frame:4]
Also said
“I was sick.” 7:15 · “I couldn't face going to work.” 7:17
Seen
gun, curtains, framed picture, bed, lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, introspective; themes: internal conflict, isolation, anxiety; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on character, minimal set design emphasizing psychological state

A man in a white undershirt and dark trousers is seen in a dimly lit room with patterned curtains and a framed picture, moving from standing near a window to sitting on a bed. He speaks about feeling ill and unable to face work, indicating internal distress rather than an external threat.

“There was nothing the matter out there. It was in here with me.” 7:07 · “My stomach was riding a roller coaster.” 7:12 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 7:07 (passage 7:06–7:27); US record: No renewal found

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