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The Quiet One · Beat 134 · permalink

Private office

24:53–25:21 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:5524:55Frame at 25:0225:02Frame at 25:0925:09Frame at 25:1625:16

Play from 24:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 242–245. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • young Black boy, short hair, wearing light-colored shirt visible
  • adult Black woman, short hair, wearing dark jacket visible
  • adult Black person, wearing striped shirt with torn shoulder visible
Seen happening
  • A boy's face is shown in close-up with a tear on his cheek. [frame:2]
  • The boy stands in a doorway facing an adult woman. [frame:3]
  • The boy covers his mouth with his hand while standing beside an adult. [frame:4]
Seen
torn shoulder on striped shirt [frame:4], doorway with paneling [frame:3], framed picture on wall [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, somber; themes: childhood distress, adult-child interaction, emotional vulnerability; style notes: black-and-white, close-ups emphasize emotion, medium shots establish spatial relationship, high-contrast lighting

A boy is shown in close-up with a tear on his cheek, then standing in a doorway facing an adult woman. The boy later covers his mouth with his hand while standing beside another adult. A voice says 'Well, come on in.'

“Well, come on in.” 24:54 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 24:55 (passage 24:53–25:21); US record: No renewal found

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