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Fear in the Night · Beat 58 · permalink

Kitchen

13:11–13:35 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:1313:13Frame at 13:1713:17Frame at 13:2413:24Frame at 13:3313:33

Play from 13:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 225–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man wearing a trench coat and fedora, medium build, appears 30s-40s visible, audible
  • Vince (named at t:13:20): man wearing suspenders and a collared shirt, medium build, appears 30s-40s visible, audible
  • Claire (named at t:13:20): unseen, voice only audible
  • Lil (named at t:13:26): unseen, mentioned mentioned
Also said
“Not a word of this to Lil.” 13:26 · “You understand?” 13:29
Seen
trench coat [frame:2], fedora hat [frame:2], suspenders [frame:1], shelves with jars [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: secrecy, domestic tension, male confrontation; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing, high contrast black-and-white cinematography

Two men are in a dimly lit interior, one in a trench coat and hat speaking to another in suspenders; dialogue indicates a tense exchange about hiding something and not telling a woman named Lil. The setting appears to be a kitchen or pantry, with shelves of jars visible in the background.

“You've just been stretching your nerves thin, kid.” 13:13 · “Claire, Vince, dinner's ready. If I tell you I didn't have these things... Throw those things away.” 13:20 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 13:13 (passage 13:11–13:35); US record: No renewal found

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