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The Quiet One · Beat 142 · permalink

Bedroom

27:07–27:19 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; 2 names 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 27:1127:11Frame at 27:1727:17

Play from 27:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 262–263. 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
  • Mr. Matt (named at t:27:12): man, dark-skinned, wearing a light shirt, leaning forward visible, audible
  • child, lying on back, wearing light clothing, legs visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans over a child lying on a bed. [frame:1]
  • The child’s legs and torso are visible as the man continues to lean over them. [frame:2]
Also said
“I say, now, Mr. Matt. Leave the baby alone. This is how so far.” 27:12
Seen
bed [frame:1], child's clothing [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: caregiving, authority, childhood; style notes: close framing, high contrast lighting, static camera

A man leans over a child lying on a bed while speaking. The transcript includes a directive to leave the baby alone.

“You tell me...” 27:09 · “Every time.” 27:11 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 27:11 (passage 27:07–27:19); US record: No renewal found

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