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The Quiet One · Beat 141 · permalink

Living room

26:58–27:07 Released 1948; registered 1949

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

Frame at 27:0127:01Frame at 27:0527:05

Play from 26:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 260–261. 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, frame:2
People
  • dark-skinned, wearing light-colored shirt, seen in profile visible
  • dark-skinned, wearing light shirt and dark pants, standing near a bed visible
Seen happening
  • A person is seen in profile looking at a shelf with dishes. [frame:1]
  • A person stands in a room with a bed and a couch visible. [frame:2]
Seen
shelf with dishes [frame:1], couch [frame:2], bed [frame:2], window with light [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: domestic space, interpersonal conflict; style notes: high-contrast black and white, static medium shots, shallow depth of field

A person is visible in a dim interior with furniture and a shelf of dishes; a line is spoken about not calling someone 'nothing'. No names are given in the dialogue or frames.

“Don't call her nothing.” 27:02 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 27:01 (passage 26:58–27:07); US record: No renewal found

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