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The Quiet One · Beat 175 · permalink

Street

31:45–32:02 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). 5 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 31:4731:47Frame at 31:5131:51Frame at 31:5531:55Frame at 32:0132:01

Play from 31:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 313–319. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • person in dark pants and light shirt, walking down steps visible
  • woman with dark curly hair, light dress, standing visible
  • woman with dark curly hair, dark jacket, standing close to p2 visible
  • man wearing a dark cap, light shirt, looking at a building visible
  • boy wearing a dark cap, light shirt, standing under a structure visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks down stone steps. [frame:1]
  • Two women stand together near a brick wall. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cap looks at a multi-story building. [frame:3]
  • A boy stands under a wooden structure. [frame:4]
Seen
stone steps, rubble, brick wall, multi-story building, wooden structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: urban decay, childhood in hardship, everyday observation; style notes: grainy black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, static framing

A person walks down stone steps in a rubble-strewn area; two women stand together near a brick wall; a man in a cap looks at a multi-story building; a boy stands under a wooden structure. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 31:47 (passage 31:45–32:02); US record: No renewal found

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