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Fear in the Night · Beat 8 · permalink

Private office

1:47–2:09 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; 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 1:491:49Frame at 1:551:55Frame at 2:022:02Frame at 2:082:08

Play from 1:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 37–46. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket, sweating, tense expression visible
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a dark dress, standing over p1 visible
Seen happening
  • The man is shown in a close-up, looking tense and sweating. [frame:1]
  • The woman stands over the man, who is seated or crouched. [frame:2]
  • The man's face is shown in profile, still tense, with the woman's silhouette visible behind him. [frame:4]
Seen
dark jacket [frame:1], dark dress [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and claustrophobic; themes: internal conflict, psychological pressure, power imbalance; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces, high contrast shadows

A man is shown in close-up with a tense expression, while a woman stands over him in a dimly lit interior. The transcript indicates the man feels trapped and compelled to act despite sensing danger.

“There was danger there. I knew that.” 1:56 · “I wanted to turn and run, but I couldn't. It seemed as if my brain was handcuffed. And I had to do what I'd come to do.” 1:59 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 1:49 (passage 1:47–2:09); US record: No renewal found

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