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Inner Sanctum · Beat 3 · permalink

Living room

13:42–20:53 Registered 1948

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; 9 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:4413:44Frame at 15:0715:07Frame at 19:3819:38Frame at 20:4520:45

Play from 13:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 1 · shots 20–38. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with light hair, wearing a light-colored dress and headscarf visible
  • man in plaid shirt and dark pants, medium build visible
  • older woman in dark dress and white collar visible
  • older man in dark cap and light shirt visible
  • Ruth (named at t:20:40): unseen speaker, likely female audible
  • Mike (named at t:14:46): unseen speaker, likely male audible
  • Willie (named at t:17:14): unseen speaker, likely male audible
  • Mr. Dunlap (named at t:15:15): unseen speaker, likely male audible
  • Mrs. Mitchell (named at t:17:28): unseen speaker, likely female audible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a headscarf speaks to someone off-screen. [frame:1]
  • A man in a plaid shirt bends over a chair in a dimly lit room. [frame:2]
  • An older woman and man stand together, the woman holding a cup. [frame:3]
  • A man in a plaid shirt stands near a window with sunlight streaming in. [frame:4]
Also said
“Mr. Donlap, I brought some hot tea for you.” 15:26 · “He's gone. Mike, he's gone. Shh, Ruth, you're waking everybody. Mike, he isn't on the sofa. His clothes are gone, too. Oh, he'll get himself drowned. I just know he'll get himself drowned.” 20:40
Seen
towel [t:13:45], linen closet [t:13:45], work pants [t:14:07], sandbags [t:14:07], single bed [t:14:44], cot [t:14:48], tea [t:15:26], aspirin [t:15:39], sofa [t:16:03], beer [t:17:06], bourbon [t:17:22], refrigerator [t:18:03], chicken [t:18:03], window [frame:4], chair [frame:2], lamp [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and domestic, with underlying anxiety about a missing child and a storm; themes: domestic responsibility, anxiety over safety, class and authority in a boarding house; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast lighting with strong shadows and bright window light

A woman directs a man to a room and offers him tea while discussing another man's absence and a child's disappearance. A man in a plaid shirt is seen in various interior settings, including near a window and bending over furniture.

“Oh, good night, darling. Oh, I know. Just go upstairs. First door to the left. And take a towel out of the linen closet.” 13:45 · “I'll get you a pair of Willie's work pants. They should fit you and he won't mind. He's out now piling up sandbags at the river.” 14:07 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 Inner Sanctum (1948) at 13:44 (passage 13:42–20:53); US record: No renewal found

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