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The Quiet One · Beat 132 · permalink

Jail

24:29–24:49 Released 1948; registered 1949

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

Frame at 24:3224:32Frame at 24:4224:42

Play from 24:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 239–240. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • child, voice only audible
  • Mom (named at t:24:32): adult female, dark clothing, visible from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is visible standing in a corridor with barred walls. [frame:2]
Also said
“Mom.” 24:40 · “Mom, what are you doing?” 24:42
Seen
barred walls [frame:2], corridor [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, intimate; themes: confinement, maternal concern, childhood anxiety; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on corridor, shallow depth of field

A child speaks to their mother in a dim, narrow corridor with barred walls; the mother is visible in the second frame. The child asks what the mother is doing.

“Mom.” 24:32 · “Love it.” 24:34 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 24:32 (passage 24:29–24:49); US record: No renewal found

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