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The Quiet One · Beat 179 · permalink

River

32:37–32:52 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:4132:41Frame at 32:4632:46Frame at 32:5032:50

Play from 32:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 334–336. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • child or young person, wearing light clothing, visible in distance visible
  • multiple people, some holding rods, standing in shallow water visible
  • person in white tank top, sitting on log, holding rod visible
Seen happening
  • A lone figure stands near a riverbank. [frame:1]
  • Several people stand in shallow water holding fishing rods. [frame:2]
  • A person in a tank top sits on a log holding a fishing rod. [frame:3]
Seen
fishing rod, log, tank top
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, observational; themes: fishing, childhood, rural life; style notes: black-and-white, natural lighting, medium to long shots, documentary-style framing

A person is seen near a body of water, then multiple people are shown in shallow water with fishing rods, and finally a person in a tank top sits on a log holding a rod. The transcript mentions annual fishing at Wilkrick and a health-related comment about someone.

“There wasn't much we could do for him until he made some move in his health.” 32:38 · “Once every year at Wilkrick, a pretty thick run of fish. If you're good at it, you can just knock them on the head.” 32:45 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 32:41 (passage 32:37–32:52); US record: No renewal found

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