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Quicksand · Beat 1 · permalink

Shop

0:00–1:11:28 Registered 1950

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 3:103:10Frame at 17:3817:38Frame at 29:1029:10Frame at 59:2159:21

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Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–30. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in leather jacket, young adult, average build visible, audible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing dark dress, visible behind counter visible, audible
  • man in light suit, standing near clown face visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing dark dress, seated visible
Also said
“Don't forget your change.” 3:33 · “I'm going to go.” 4:24
Seen
cash register, clown face, curtains, sign: CASHIER CHANGE GET HERE, sign: CHANGE HERE
On screen
Vis wl Buys any watch in this window / CASHIER CHANGE GET HERE / CHANGE HERE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: financial struggle, social interaction, romantic tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man in a leather jacket interacts with colleagues and a woman in a shop, discussing money, social plans, and past relationships. The setting includes a shop counter and a street scene with a large clown face, indicating a mix of work and leisure environments.

“Come on.” 1:20 · “You new here, honey?” 3:21 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 Quicksand (1950) at 3:10 (passage 0:00–1:11:28); US record: No renewal found

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