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The Quiet One · Beat 176 · permalink

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32:02–32:16 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:0332:03Frame at 32:0732:07Frame at 32:1032:10Frame at 32:1532:15

Play from 32:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 320–328. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • lower body and hand of a person wearing textured shorts or trousers, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • young man with short dark hair, wearing a light-colored collared shirt, visible in frame 3 visible
  • woman with dark hair pulled back, wearing a light dress, standing outdoors in frame 4 visible
  • woman with dark curly hair, seen from behind in frame 4 visible
  • woman with light-colored head covering, partially visible in frame 4 visible
Seen happening
  • A hand touches a surface. [frame:1]
  • A young man looks off-camera with a neutral expression. [frame:3]
  • Three women stand together outdoors near a brick wall. [frame:4]
Seen
hand [frame:1], brick wall [frame:4], hanging object [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to somber; themes: human interaction, everyday life; style notes: black-and-white, close-up and medium shots, high contrast lighting, static framing

A close-up shows a hand touching a surface, followed by a medium shot of a young man in a light shirt. The final frame shows three women outdoors near a brick wall. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 32:03 (passage 32:02–32:16); US record: No renewal found

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