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The Quiet One · Beat 140 · permalink

Bedroom

26:42–26:58 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:4426:44Frame at 26:4826:48Frame at 26:5426:54

Play from 26:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 257–259. 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
  • person lying in bed, partially visible, wearing light-colored clothing visible
  • person standing, holding a tray, wearing a light shirt, dark pants, and dark shoes; appears young, possibly a boy or young man visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A person is seen lying in bed, viewed through a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A person stands holding a tray with a plate and a doily, looking toward the camera. [frame:2]
  • A person’s legs and feet are visible near the bed, standing on a patterned rug. [frame:3]
Also said
“I didn't want to give you anything.” 26:51 · “What you call it?” 26:57
Seen
tray with plate and doily, bed, patterned rug, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, caregiving, resistance; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing through doorways, high contrast black-and-white, static camera

A person is seen through a doorway, partially visible in bed, while another person stands nearby holding a tray with a plate and a doily. The transcript contains a confrontational exchange about not being asked to swallow anything and not wanting to give anything.

“Didn't nobody ask you to swallow nothing.” 26:45 · “Don't give me that stuff.” 26:47 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 26:44 (passage 26:42–26:58); US record: No renewal found

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