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Fear in the Night · Beat 34 · permalink

Bedroom

8:26–9:08 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:418:41Frame at 9:009:00Frame at 9:069:06Frame at 9:089:08

Play from 8:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 154–158. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a light-colored shirt, sitting on a bed, holding his head visible
  • Betty (named at t:8:28): unseen speaker audible
  • Vince Grayson (named at t:8:28): unseen mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man sits on a bed, holding his head, appearing ill. [frame:2]
  • The room is shown spinning from the man's perspective. [frame:3]
  • The spinning intensifies, showing blurred motion. [frame:4]
Also said
“The more I tried to figure it out, the thicker I got. Suddenly, the room started spinning.” 8:53
Seen
bed, lamp, door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: distressed, disoriented; themes: illness, disorientation, duty; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on the character, use of motion blur to convey dizziness

A man is shown in a bedroom, appearing unwell and distressed. A voice reports that Vince Grayson is sick and has asked someone else to take his window.

“Good morning, Mr. Vineyard. Morning, Betty. Vince Grayson just called. He's not feeling well. Will you take his window today?” 8:28 · “Oh, is Vince sick? What did he say it was?” 8:28 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 8:41 (passage 8:26–9:08); US record: No renewal found

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