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The Quiet One · Beat 166 · permalink

Street

30:44–31:06 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:4830:48Frame at 30:5330:53Frame at 30:5930:59Frame at 31:0531:05

Play from 30:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 98 · shots 296–299. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
day evidence: frame:3
People
  • young Black boy, wearing a light-colored short-sleeved shirt and dark pants visible
Seen happening
  • Close-up of the boy's face, looking upward [frame:1]
  • The boy is seen from behind, walking away [frame:2]
  • Medium shot of the boy walking on a paved area near a building with a Coca-Cola crate [frame:3]
  • Close-up of the boy's profile, looking to the right [frame:4]
Seen
Coca-Cola crate, paved ground, building wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: childhood, urban environment, suspense; style notes: black-and-white, handheld or shaky camera movement, close-ups on the boy's face, natural daylight

A young Black boy is shown in close-up and medium shots outdoors on a paved area near a building with a Coca-Cola crate. A voice says 'Hold on!' during the sequence. The setting appears to be a street or sidewalk during daylight.

“Hold on!” 30:47 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 30:48 (passage 30:44–31:06); US record: No renewal found

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