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The Quiet One · Beat 167 · permalink

Sidewalk

31:06–31:26 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 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:0931:09Frame at 31:1731:17Frame at 31:2031:20Frame at 31:2631:26

Play from 31:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 98 · shots 300–305. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult male, wearing dark trousers and shoes, seen from behind and in close-up of feet visible
  • boy, light-colored shirt, dark trousers, visible from front in frame 1 visible
  • boy, plaid shirt, dark shorts, visible from side in frame 1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man walks with two boys on a sidewalk. [frame:1]
  • The camera shows an empty sidewalk next to a brick wall and fence. [frame:2]
  • The man's legs and feet are shown walking on the sidewalk. [frame:3]
  • A close-up shows the man's shoe stepping on the pavement. [frame:4]
Seen
brick wall [frame:1], chain-link fence [frame:2], pavement [frame:4], shoes [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: movement, urban environment, childhood; style notes: black-and-white, low-angle shots, focus on movement and feet, static camera in later frames

A man walks with two boys on a paved sidewalk next to a brick wall; the camera then focuses on the man's feet as he walks. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this segment.

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 31:09 (passage 31:06–31:26); US record: No renewal found

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