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Fear in the Night · Beat 87 · permalink

Vehicle interior

18:57–19:21 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 4 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:5818:58Frame at 19:0919:09Frame at 19:1419:14Frame at 19:1919:19

Play from 18:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 314–322. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, visible in frame 1 and 4 visible
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, standing beside p1 in frame 1, visible in frame 4 visible
  • Lil (named at t:19:09): woman with dark hair, wearing a light blouse, visible in frame 2 and 3 visible
  • Vince (named at t:19:09): man in driver's seat, wearing a suit and tie, visible in frame 2 and 3 visible
  • Betty (named at t:19:07): woman with dark hair and patterned dress, visible in frame 2, 3, and 4 visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand outside a vehicle. [frame:1]
  • Three people are seated inside a vehicle, talking. [frame:2]
  • The three people continue talking inside the vehicle. [frame:3]
  • A man and a woman sit in the back seat of the vehicle, looking at each other. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hello, Betty. Hello, Vince.” 19:07 · “Hiya, Lil. I'm fine. Vince, I want you to know this wasn't my idea. What do you mean? I'm glad you picked me up. Well, where should we go, kids? Anywhere. I don't care.” 19:09
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], vehicle interior with steering wheel [frame:2], patterned dress [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: interpersonal tension, group decision-making, nocturnal setting implied by interior lighting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups inside vehicle, tight framing on faces, high contrast lighting

Two men stand outside a vehicle while a group of three people sit inside it, conversing. The group agrees to go to Solander Canyon.

“Come on.” 18:58 · “Now look Cliff if you think this is going to do any good don't be a grip come on” 18:59 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 18:58 (passage 18:57–19:21); US record: No renewal found

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