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The Quiet One · Beat 1 · permalink

Beat 1

0:00–0:19 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:090:09

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

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

Seen
cast credit card
On screen
Cast DONALD PETERS .... DONALD THOMPSON The Counselor .... Clarence Cooper The Grandmother .... Sadie Stockton The Mother .... Estelle Evans The Stepfather .... Paul Baucum and the staff and boys of the WILTWYCK SCHOOL
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static title card, typographic layout, black-and-white, no camera movement

The beat shows a cast credit card for the film 'THE QUIET ONE', listing actors and roles, and mentions the Wiltwyck School. No people, actions, or settings are depicted beyond the text on screen.

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 The Quiet One (1948) at 0:09 (passage 0:00–0:19); US record: No renewal found

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