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Inner Sanctum · Beat 4 · permalink

Outdoor night scene near river

20:53–28:14 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:3424:34

Play from 20:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 1 · shots 39–39. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor night scene near river (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: t:21:18
People
  • Mr. Dunlap (named at t:21:10): man, wearing plaid shirt, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • Mike (named at t:24:30): boy, wearing dark shirt, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • Ruth (named at t:25:38): woman, wearing light dress or robe, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Mr. Dunlap, the boy Mike, and Ruth are standing together outdoors at night. [frame:1]
Also said
“Like watching the trains down at the station.” 26:33 · “- Just a man. He put a bundle of something on the train. And I guess he hurt his arm.” 27:22
Seen
plaid shirt, dark shirt, light dress or robe
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: parental concern, childhood rebellion, secrets, nighttime danger; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot framing, night setting, black-and-white film

A man and a boy are outside at night near a river; the man, identified as Mr. Dunlap, finds the boy who had gone out alone. Later, the boy talks to someone in bed about trains and a man he saw at a station, hinting at a secret.

“you're fine. He must have gone to the river. I'll go with you. No, no, you better stay here. I'll bring him back. But you've never seen him, Mr. Dunlap.” 21:10 · “I just went for a walk. Just a walk. You'll have a hard time walking or sitting before I get through with you.” 24:40 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 24:34 (passage 20:53–28:14); US record: No renewal found

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