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Fear in the Night · Beat 99 · permalink

Forest

21:17–21:20 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 21:1821:18

Play from 21:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 343–343. 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
  • man, dark hair, medium build, wearing a light-colored shirt visible
  • woman, dark hair, partially obscured, wearing a light-colored garment visible
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or intimate; themes: intimacy, mystery; style notes: close-up, high contrast lighting, shallow depth of field, black and white

A man embraces a woman in a dimly lit, wooded outdoor setting. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 21:18 (passage 21:17–21:20); US record: No renewal found

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