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Fear in the Night · Beat 32 · permalink

Bedroom

7:27–7:48 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 7:287:28Frame at 7:347:34Frame at 7:407:40Frame at 7:467:46

Play from 7:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 16 · shots 142–148. 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, adult, medium build, wearing a white undershirt and dark pants, sitting on a bed visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man is sitting on a bed, looking off-camera. [frame:1]
  • The man continues to sit on the bed, now looking down at his hands. [frame:2]
  • The man picks up a telephone receiver and holds it to his ear. [frame:3]
  • The man is still on the phone, listening intently. [frame:4]
Seen
bed, lamp, telephone receiver
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, solitary; themes: isolation, communication under stress; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on the subject, static camera, black-and-white film

A man in a white undershirt sits on a bed in a dimly lit room and makes a phone call. He is audible requesting a phone number, and the frames show him picking up the receiver and holding it to his ear.

“Oh.” 7:42 · “Give me Fitzroy's 5103.” 7:45 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 7:28 (passage 7:27–7:48); US record: No renewal found

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