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Fear in the Night · Beat 97 · permalink

Forest

20:52–21:10 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:0121:01

Play from 20:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 341–341. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-20s, wearing a light-colored dress with ruffles and short sleeves, standing visible, audible
  • Vince (named at t:20:53): man, mid-30s, wearing a dark suit, seated, head slightly bowed visible, audible
Also said
“Mr. Billio asked me to go out with him yesterday. Why didn't you go? Why tell me? Vince. What is it? What's the matter?” 20:59
Seen
tree trunks, basket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and questioning; themes: interpersonal conflict, unspoken tension, workplace and personal boundaries; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, natural setting with dense trees framing the characters

A woman stands beside a seated man in a wooded area; she asks him about returning to work and questions his decision not to go out with Mr. Billio. The man replies he does not think he will return to work.

“Vince, are you coming back to work tomorrow?” 20:53 · “I don't think so.” 20:56 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 21:01 (passage 20:52–21:10); US record: No renewal found

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