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The Quiet One · Beat 137 · permalink

Bedroom

25:52–26:12 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:5825:58Frame at 26:0726:07

Play from 25:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 250–251. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • short hair, light-colored shirt, seated, profile view visible
Seen happening
  • A beam of light falls across a dresser and wall in a dark room. [frame:1]
  • A person sits in profile, looking down at something in their hands. [frame:2]
Also said
“I didn't say it like you took it for.” 26:03 · “Good.” 26:11
Seen
dresser, window, flowers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: miscommunication, isolation, personal reflection; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on character, static shots

A person sits in a dimly lit interior space, speaking about a train and clarifying intent. The setting includes a dresser with objects and a window casting light.

“Where's your train for?” 25:53 · “I didn't mean it like you took it.” 25:55 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 25:58 (passage 25:52–26:12); US record: No renewal found

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