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Fear in the Night · Beat 63 · permalink

Private office

14:23–14:50 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 14:2414:24Frame at 14:3314:33Frame at 14:4014:40Frame at 14:4714:47

Play from 14:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 251–261. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a dark jacket visible
  • Vince (named at t:14:23): man, wearing a trench coat and tie, holding a hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Vince holds his hat and speaks to the woman. [frame:2]
  • A table with a hat and papers is shown. [frame:3]
  • Vince looks at his wristwatch. [frame:4]
Also said
“See ya.” 14:40 · “The blood. I washed it off.” 14:42
Seen
trench coat [frame:2], hat [frame:2], wristwatch [frame:4], table with papers [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: suspicion, secrecy, personal conflict; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-ups, static framing

A woman and a man in a trench coat speak in a dimly lit room; the man checks his watch after mentioning blood. A table with a hat and papers is shown in a separate shot.

“How are you feeling, Vince? I thought you were sick.” 14:23 · “I was. I just didn't feel well.” 14:23 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 14:24 (passage 14:23–14:50); US record: No renewal found

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