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Fear in the Night · Beat 80 · permalink

Private office

17:25–17:48 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:3117:31Frame at 17:4317:43

Play from 17:25 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 32 · shots 301–302. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a patterned blouse, holding a telephone receiver visible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a telephone receiver to her ear while looking at a newspaper. [frame:1]
  • A newspaper clipping is shown with a 'WANTED' ad for a house with an octagonal mirrored-powdered room. [frame:2]
Seen
telephone, lamp, newspaper
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: mystery, real estate, communication; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A woman is on the phone in a room with patterned wallpaper and a lamp. A newspaper clipping is shown with a 'WANTED' ad for a house with an octagonal mirrored-powdered room.

“with a mirror-lined powder room on the second floor.” 17:37 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 17:31 (passage 17:25–17:48); US record: No renewal found

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