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Fear in the Night · Beat 51 · permalink

Workshop

10:36–11:02 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; 2 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 10:4010:40Frame at 10:4710:47Frame at 10:5310:53Frame at 10:5810:58

Play from 10:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 22 · shots 181–185. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
workshop (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Vince (named at t:10:50): man wearing a coat and hat, seen from behind or side visible, audible
  • Cliff (named at t:10:50): man in shirt and tie, seated at a workbench, sanding a wooden frame visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Vince approaches Cliff in the workshop. [frame:2]
  • Cliff continues sanding a wooden frame while talking to Vince. [frame:3]
  • Cliff turns toward the camera holding the wooden frame. [frame:4]
Also said
“Be with you as soon as I finish sanding it.” 10:56 · “exact reproduction of Martha Washington's bed.” 10:58
Seen
wooden frame [frame:3], workbench [frame:3], overhead lamp [frame:3], white picket fence [frame:1], car [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and focused; themes: workshop craftsmanship, interrupted conversation, nocturnal setting; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, tight framing on characters and objects, typical of film noir

A man in a coat approaches another man working at a bench in a workshop; the worker is sanding a wooden frame while speaking. The setting is dimly lit, suggesting an interior workspace at night or under artificial light.

“Hello, Clifton.” 10:49 · “Oh, hi, Vince. How's the boy? Cliff, I want to talk to you.” 10:50 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 10:40 (passage 10:36–11:02); US record: No renewal found

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