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The Quiet One · Beat 195 · permalink

Outdoor

34:07–34:19 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:1034:10Frame at 34:1634:16

Play from 34:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 114 · shots 356–357. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young Black male, short hair, wearing a striped shirt visible
  • Donald (named at t:34:09): young Black male, short hair, wearing a light-colored shirt visible
Seen happening
  • Donald looks at another boy [frame:1]
  • The other boy looks down [frame:2]
Also said
“and made the first friend of his life.” 34:16
Seen
striped shirt [frame:2], light-colored shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: friendship, risk, childhood; style notes: close-up framing, black-and-white, natural lighting

Two young Black males are shown in close-up, one looking at the other who looks down. The transcript states that Donald took a great risk and made his first friend.

“But now at last,” 34:07 · “Against all that terror in front of everybody, Donald took the greatest risk of his life.” 34:09 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 34:10 (passage 34:07–34:19); US record: No renewal found

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