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Fear in the Night · Beat 62 · permalink

Kitchen

14:03–14:23 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0614:06Frame at 14:1414:14Frame at 14:1714:17Frame at 14:2214:22

Play from 14:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 244–250. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a light-colored blouse and dark apron, dark hair styled in waves visible, audible
  • man, 30s-40s, wearing a dark robe, standing in doorway visible
  • man, 30s-40s, wearing a dark suit, standing in doorway visible
  • Vince (named at t:14:10): man, 30s-40s, wearing a light-colored suit, seated at a desk visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a kitchen holding a pot. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand in a doorway as a woman faces them. [frame:2]
  • A woman looks upward with a surprised expression. [frame:3]
  • A man in a suit sits at a desk with a lamp and papers. [frame:4]
Seen
apron [frame:1], robe [frame:2], suit [frame:2], desk [frame:4], lamp [frame:4], papers [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and domestic; themes: domestic tension, suspicion, gender roles; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups on faces, static camera framing

A woman in a kitchen calls out to men to come in for soup, while a man in a robe and another in a suit are seen in a doorway. A woman expresses jealousy over a butcher and questions a man named Vince about his work at the bank.

“You men coming in or not? Want your soup to get cold?” 14:04 · “I keep cracking the polish off of that one nail. Are you lucky? Lil's got a rib rose tonight. You know I'm getting jealous of that butcher. Vince, why did you tell me you've been working hard at the bank all day? Because I did...” 14:10 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 14:06 (passage 14:03–14:23); US record: No renewal found

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