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The Quiet One · Beat 10 · permalink

Field

2:08–2:22 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:092:09Frame at 2:142:14Frame at 2:182:18Frame at 2:202:20

Play from 2:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 16–19. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • child, dark-skinned, wearing light-colored clothing, partially visible in foliage visible
Seen happening
  • Child is seen lying or crouching in dense foliage. [frame:1]
  • Child’s legs are visible among plants. [frame:2]
  • Close-up of child’s face, eyes looking upward. [frame:3]
  • Child’s torso and arm visible through foliage. [frame:4]
Seen
foliage [frame:1], child's clothing [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: contemplative; themes: childhood, deformation by circumstance, observation; style notes: close-ups, natural lighting, black-and-white, handheld or static framing

A child is seen partially obscured in foliage, with close-ups on their face and body. The voiceover reflects on the child's ordinary nature despite being deformed by circumstances.

“When I watch them playing, they seem like ordinary children.” 2:09 · “By all rights, they are ordinary children, but circumstances have deformed them.” 2:14 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 The Quiet One (1948) at 2:09 (passage 2:08–2:22); US record: No renewal found

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