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Fear in the Night · Beat 325 · permalink

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1:09:08–1:09:35 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:101:09:10Frame at 1:09:191:09:19Frame at 1:09:251:09:25Frame at 1:09:341:09:34

Play from 1:09:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 842–850. 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
  • Adult male, visible from chest up, lying on back, wearing dark shirt, face illuminated from below, appears distressed then relieved. visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Person lies on back in darkness with particles floating around. [frame:1]
  • Person continues lying, mouth slightly open, eyes looking up. [frame:2]
  • Person’s expression shifts to slight relief. [frame:3]
  • Person looks upward with a calmer expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yeah. All of a sudden I'm all right.” 69:29 · “I'm sorry.” 69:35
Seen
reflective particles or water droplets [frame:1], dark shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense then relieved; themes: sudden recovery, vulnerability, isolation; style notes: low-key lighting, tight close-up, high contrast, grainy black-and-white film stock, dramatic shadows

A person is shown lying on their back in darkness, with water or reflective particles around them, and speaks about feeling suddenly alright. The scene is dimly lit and confined, with no clear location or time of day established.

“Are you alright now, kid?” 69:11 · “Yeah.” 69:26 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 1:09:10 (passage 1:09:08–1:09:35); US record: No renewal found

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