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Fear in the Night · Beat 75 · permalink

Bedroom

16:10–16:54 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:1316:13Frame at 16:4416:44Frame at 16:4716:47Frame at 16:5316:53

Play from 16:10 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 30 · shots 288–293. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light hair, wearing a light-colored nightgown, seated in bed visible, audible
  • Clep (named at t:16:40): man, dark hair, wearing a patterned robe or dressing gown, standing or sitting beside the bed visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man leans close to the woman in bed, speaking to her. [frame:1]
  • The woman sits up in bed, looking at the man who is seated beside her. [frame:2]
  • The man continues speaking to the woman, who listens with a concerned expression. [frame:3]
  • The man gestures slightly while speaking to the woman in bed. [frame:4]
Also said
“Belle's gonna have a kid.” 16:35 · “Spooky business, so help me. I'll drag you off to a doctor.” 16:46
Seen
bed [frame:1], lamp on nightstand [frame:2], patterned robe [frame:2], nightgown [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: domestic tension, mental distress, revelation; style notes: close two-shots, high-contrast lighting, confined framing emphasizing emotional proximity

A man and a woman are in a bedroom; the man speaks to the woman, who is seated in bed, about her fretting and an upcoming pregnancy. The man mentions getting sleep and threatens to take her to a doctor if she continues with 'spooky business.'

“That's the kind of trick your mind's been playing on you.” 16:12 · “She's fretted about you for years, ever since your mother died. Right now would be the worst time of all. Now?” 16:21 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 16:13 (passage 16:10–16:54); US record: No renewal found

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