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The Quiet One · Beat 17 · permalink

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4:11–4:27 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:194:19

Play from 4:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 39–39. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, dark hair, wearing light-colored shirt, seated visible
  • adult, light-colored shirt, dark pants, kneeling or crouching visible
  • Donald (named at t:4:21): unseen audible
Seen happening
  • Two people sit on the ground outdoors with playing cards scattered around them. [frame:1]
Also said
“If Donald's ever lucky enough to open up,” 4:21 · “You'll have to go through that too.” 4:24
Seen
playing cards [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reflective and slightly tense; themes: childhood jealousy, emotional development, adult-child interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting, outdoor setting

A boy and an adult are seated outdoors on the ground with playing cards scattered nearby. The transcript suggests the adult is discussing the boy's need for attention and jealousy, and mentions someone named Donald.

“This boy wants all my attention.” 4:12 · “At this stage, they're painfully jealous.” 4:17 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 4:19 (passage 4:11–4:27); US record: No renewal found

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