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Fear in the Night · Beat 33 · permalink

Private office

7:48–8:26 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; 7 names 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 7:497:49Frame at 8:048:04Frame at 8:218:21Frame at 8:248:24

Play from 7:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 149–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man, mid-30s, wearing a tank top, dark hair, lean build visible
  • man, 40s-50s, balding, wearing a dark suit and tie, serious expression visible
  • man, 50s, wearing a dark uniform with cap, mustache visible
  • Jill (named at t:8:16): woman, 30s, wearing a dark hat with feather and a suit jacket, earrings visible
  • Mr. Jackson (named at t:8:16): unseen, referenced in dialogue mentioned
  • Grayson (named at t:7:56): unseen, referenced in dialogue mentioned
  • Bill Hughes (named at t:7:49): unseen, referenced in dialogue mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a tank top is on the phone. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit is on the phone. [frame:2]
  • A uniformed officer and a woman in a hat face each other indoors. [frame:3]
  • The officer and woman continue their conversation. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, it could be the flu.” 8:04 · “Good morning, Jill. Good morning, Mr. Jackson. Isn't that a lovely morning? Lots of things I'd rather do than work today.” 8:16
Seen
telephone [frame:1, frame:2], lamp [frame:1], window blinds [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], uniform cap [frame:3, frame:4], woman's hat with feather [frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: communication under stress, professional roles, morning routine; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a tank top speaks on the phone, followed by a man in a suit also on the phone, then a uniformed officer and a woman in a hat converse indoors. The transcript includes dialogue about the Fremont National Bank, flu, and a greeting to Jill and Mr. Jackson.

“Fremont National Bank, Bill Hughes speaking.” 7:49 · “Oh, yes, Grayson.” 7:56 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 7:49 (passage 7:48–8:26); US record: No renewal found

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