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Fear in the Night · Beat 94 · permalink

Vehicle interior

19:52–20:17 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; 4 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 19:5519:55Frame at 20:0220:02Frame at 20:0520:05Frame at 20:1320:13

Play from 19:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 332–337. 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:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a light-colored button-up blouse visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark hat and suit, sitting in the back visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark top, sitting in the back visible
  • man wearing a dark hat, driving, with a round steering wheel visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Four people are seated in a car at night, with the driver at the wheel. [frame:1]
  • The woman in the front seat turns her head to speak to the man in the back. [frame:2]
  • The woman gestures with her hand while speaking. [frame:3]
  • The woman looks surprised or animated while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Nothing, but, uh... Well, stop then!” 20:09 · “It's getting late, and besides, I'm hungry. Okay, okay, my love. That's just what I was going to do.” 20:12
Seen
steering wheel, hats, button-up blouse
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense yet conversational; themes: travel, decision-making, interpersonal dynamics; style notes: tight framing on faces, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

Four people are in a vehicle at night, discussing where to stop. One person expresses hunger and agrees to stop at a location suggested by another.

“You know where you're going.” 19:56 · “This road will find just the right spot. Did you ever see anything so stubborn?” 20:00 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 19:55 (passage 19:52–20:17); US record: No renewal found

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