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The Quiet One · Beat 158 · permalink

Bedroom

29:33–29:59 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:4129:41Frame at 29:5429:54

Play from 29:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 96 · shots 284–285. 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
  • child, lying on bed, wearing light-colored clothing visible
  • adult, standing beside bed, wearing light-colored shirt, dark skin visible
  • unseen audible
Seen happening
  • A child is crying in bed. [frame:1]
  • An adult stands beside the child's bed. [frame:1]
  • A dark, cluttered interior space is shown. [frame:2]
Seen
{'item': 'bed with blankets', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'light-colored clothing on child', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'light-colored shirt on adult', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'dark, cluttered room with furniture', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: distress; themes: childhood distress, caregiving, domestic crisis; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on emotional moment, abrupt cut to dark space

A person tends to a crying child lying on a bed; another shot shows a dark, cluttered interior space. A voice expresses distress with 'Oh, my God.'

“*crying*” 29:39 · “Oh, my God.” 29:47 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 29:41 (passage 29:33–29:59); US record: No renewal found

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