Public Reel

The Quiet One · Beat 125 · permalink

Other

23:27–23:29 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 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:2823:28

Play from 23:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 230–230. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark-skinned man, wearing a light-colored sleeveless shirt, visible in profile visible
  • dark-skinned man, wearing a light-colored shirt, facing p1, hands on p1's face and shoulders visible
Seen happening
  • One man holds the other's face with both hands while they look at each other closely. [frame:1]
Seen
light-colored sleeveless shirt [frame:1], light-colored shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intense and intimate; themes: human connection, intimacy, confrontation; style notes: close-up shot, high-contrast black and white lighting, focused on facial expressions and physical contact

Two men are in close physical contact in an outdoor setting. One man holds the other's face while looking at him intently.

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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from The Quiet One (1948) at 23:28 (passage 23:27–23:29); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/the_quiet_one/b125.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite