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The Quiet One · Beat 136 · permalink

Living room

25:35–25:52 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 25:4225:42Frame at 25:5025:50

Play from 25:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 248–249. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young boy, dark hair, wearing a light short-sleeved shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The boy sits on a couch, holding an object. [frame:1]
  • The boy is seen in close-up, manipulating an object in his hands. [frame:2]
Also said
“Can't even talk in your own place.” 25:47
Seen
couch, object in boy's hands, cabinet or shelf unit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: childhood, authority, personal space; style notes: static medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

A boy sits on a couch in a dimly lit room, handling an object while speaking. The transcript indicates a tense exchange about talking in the space.

“So what's your fast book?” 25:39 · “Don't shush me.” 25:45 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 25:42 (passage 25:35–25:52); US record: No renewal found

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