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Fear in the Night · Beat 5 · permalink

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1:14–1:35 Registered 1947

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

Frame at 1:161:16Frame at 1:221:22Frame at 1:271:27Frame at 1:331:33

Play from 1:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 5 · shots 24–32. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • woman with styled hair, visible from shoulders up, wearing earrings, in a dark setting visible
Seen happening
  • On-screen text credits Maxwell Shane as writer and director. [frame:1]
Seen
text overlay, text overlay, woman's face
On screen
Written for the Screen and Directed by MAXWELL SHANE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, ominous; themes: fear, impending threat, isolation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close-up framing, dark background emphasizing facial expression

A woman's face appears in darkness, reacting to an approaching presence. On-screen text credits Maxwell Shane as writer and director.

“All I could see was this face coming toward me.” 1:31 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 1:16 (passage 1:14–1:35); US record: No renewal found

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