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The Quiet One · Beat 107 · permalink

Sidewalk

21:39–21:57 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:4521:45Frame at 21:5421:54

Play from 21:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 208–209. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young person, wearing a vest over a short-sleeved shirt and trousers visible
  • legs in dark trousers and shoes, walking visible
Seen happening
  • A young person stands beside a shop window. [frame:1]
  • A person's legs are seen walking on a paved sidewalk. [frame:2]
Seen
shop window with signs [frame:1], sidewalk pavement [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: urban environment, childhood, everyday movement; style notes: static medium shot, low-angle close-up on feet, black-and-white, natural lighting

A young person stands near a shop window while another person's legs are seen walking on a sidewalk. A line of dialogue expresses uncertainty about an action.

“I'm not sure what you're doing.” 21:49 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 21:45 (passage 21:39–21:57); US record: No renewal found

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