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The Quiet One · Beat 197 · permalink

Field

34:29–34:52 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:3134:31Frame at 34:3834:38Frame at 34:4534:45Frame at 34:5034:50

Play from 34:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 115 · shots 359–362. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Clarence (named at t:34:34): adult male, dark skin, short curly hair, wearing light shirt and pants, seated on grass visible
  • Miss Roberts (named at t:34:42): adult female, dark skin, dark hair, wearing light dress, seated on grass visible, audible
  • Donald (named at t:34:30): child, name Donald mentioned mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a bucket outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man sit together on grass, talking. [frame:2]
  • A man eats from a plate while seated on grass. [frame:3]
  • A woman looks intently at someone off-camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“He wondered what for.” 34:39 · “But Miss Roberts knew what Donald had been through. And after she told Clarence a little about the child,” 34:42
Seen
metal bucket [frame:1], plate with food [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reflective and quiet; themes: social work, personal realization, child welfare; style notes: black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, medium and close shots, static framing

A social worker speaks with a man named Clarence outdoors after an event involving a child named Donald. The man eats from a plate while seated on grass, and the social worker listens intently.

“It was a great day for Donald and for us, too.” 34:30 · “One of our social workers came over and congratulated Clarence.” 34:34 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 34:31 (passage 34:29–34:52); US record: No renewal found

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