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Fear in the Night · Beat 50 · permalink

Street

10:11–10:36 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; 8 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 10:1810:18Frame at 10:2710:27Frame at 10:3310:33

Play from 10:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 178–180. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
day evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a trench coat and hat, outdoors visible
  • man wearing a hat and collared shirt, indoors visible
  • man in suit walking on street visible
  • woman in skirt walking on street visible
  • man in hat walking on street visible
  • Betty (named at t:10:17): unspecified person audible
  • Cliff (named at t:10:35): unspecified person audible
  • Lil (named at t:10:35): unspecified person audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a trench coat and hat stands outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat looks upward indoors. [frame:2]
  • People walk on a street past a storefront with a sign reading 'FOUNTAIN-PRESCRIPTIONS'. [frame:3]
Also said
“Cliff. My brother-in-law. He ought to be able to figure out something. I got to Cliff's place just before dinner. My sister Lil told me he was out in the garage.” 10:35
Seen
trench coat [frame:1], hat [frame:1, frame:2], storefront sign [frame:3], garage [t:10:35]
On screen
FOUNTAIN-PRESCRIPTIONS
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anxious, restless; themes: fear of darkness, seeking help from others, urban environment; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural daylight, outdoor street scene with storefront signage

A person walks outside during the day, then enters a building where another man is seen indoors. The speaker mentions needing to talk to Betty and going to Cliff's place, where Lil says Cliff is in the garage. The scene includes a storefront with a sign reading 'FOUNTAIN-PRESCRIPTIONS'.

“I had to get out of my room. Out into the sunshine.” 10:14 · “I had to stay out of the shadows. I knew that tonight, I'd be afraid of the dark. I had to talk to somebody about this crazy thing. Betty. I'd get sympathy from Betty. What I needed was an explanation.” 10:17 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 10:18 (passage 10:11–10:36); US record: No renewal found

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