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The Quiet One · Beat 172 · permalink

Rubble-strewn area

31:35–31:41 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:3831:38

Play from 31:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 310–310. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rubble-strewn area (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, wearing light shirt and dark pants, standing on structure visible
  • boy, crouching, dark clothing visible
  • boy, crouching, light shirt, visible face visible
  • boy, crouching, dark clothing, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A boy stands on a makeshift structure while others crouch around it. [frame:1]
Seen
makeshift structure [frame:1], heart drawing [frame:1], rubble [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: playful yet gritty; themes: childhood play in postwar setting, improvised structures, urban decay; style notes: low-angle shot, high-contrast lighting, documentary-style framing

A group of boys is gathered around a makeshift structure in a rubble-strewn area. One boy stands on the structure while others crouch nearby, with a heart drawn on a wall in the background.

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 31:38 (passage 31:35–31:41); US record: No renewal found

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