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Fear in the Night · Beat 95 · permalink

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20:17–20:46 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:1820:18Frame at 20:3320:33

Play from 20:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 41 · shots 338–339. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man lying on blanket, wearing dark pants and light shirt visible
  • Martha (named at t:20:32): woman sitting, wearing light dress, dark hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on a blanket outdoors. [frame:2]
  • A woman sits beside him. [frame:2]
  • A car is parked nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“Toss me another one of those marshmallows, will you, beloved? As I wish, Martha. Plop!” 20:32 · “Mommy, you're wonderful. Uh-huh. Just as long as the marshmallows last.” 20:39
Seen
car, blanket, marshmallow
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and relaxed; themes: leisure, domestic interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting

A man lies on a blanket outdoors while a woman sits beside him; a car is parked nearby. The transcript includes casual dialogue about marshmallows and affectionate terms.

“I'm going to go.” 20:17 · “Ah, this is the life.” 20:29 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 20:18 (passage 20:17–20:46); US record: No renewal found

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