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The Quiet One · Beat 12 · permalink

Field

2:44–2:47 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 2:452:45

Play from 2:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 23–23. 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, wearing light-colored short-sleeved shirt, crouched, facing right visible
  • adult, wearing dark long-sleeved shirt, crouched, back mostly to camera visible
Seen
small rectangular objects [frame:1], ground cover [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, quiet; themes: outdoor activity, childhood, examination; style notes: close ground-level shot, high contrast black and white, natural lighting

Two people are crouched on the ground outdoors, handling small rectangular objects laid out on the ground. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast lighting.

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 2:45 (passage 2:44–2:47); US record: No renewal found

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