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Fear in the Night · Beat 314 · permalink

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1:07:47–1:08:05 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:491:07:49Frame at 1:07:521:07:52Frame at 1:08:011:08:01Frame at 1:08:041:08:04

Play from 1:07:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 814–818. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • silhouette of a person in water, partially submerged visible
Seen happening
  • A person is in dark water near a wooden structure. [frame:1]
  • The person remains in the water, partially submerged. [frame:2]
  • A car is driving on a dark road. [frame:3]
  • The car continues driving on the road. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden structure, car
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: isolation, suspense; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, low-angle shots, night setting

A person is seen in dark water near a wooden structure, followed by a car driving on a dark road. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 1:07:49 (passage 1:07:47–1:08:05); US record: No renewal found

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