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The Quiet One · Beat 199 · permalink

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35:16–35:38 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1835:18Frame at 35:2535:25Frame at 35:3335:33Frame at 35:3735:37

Play from 35:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 115 · shots 369–376. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young boy, dark skin, short curly hair, wearing a plaid shirt visible
  • young boy, dark skin, wearing a white tank top, visible in close-up visible
Seen happening
  • A boy in a plaid shirt stands near hanging clothes while another boy in a tank top sits nearby. [frame:1]
  • A hand adjusts clothing on a boy wearing a tank top. [frame:2]
  • A boy in a plaid shirt looks over his shoulder with a serious expression. [frame:3]
  • A boy in a tank top stares directly at the camera with a stern look. [frame:4]
Also said
“All the meaner in front of the other boy.” 35:28 · “Clarence wondered what the Dickens was wrong with him.” 35:33
Seen
hanging clothes [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], white tank top [frame:2], clothing rack [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: interpersonal conflict, youth, perceived betrayal; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on faces to emphasize emotion

Two boys are in a dimly lit room with hanging clothes; one boy is handed a shirt while the other looks on with a serious expression. The transcript indicates a conflict over a shirt with a hole, perceived as a personal betrayal.

“If Clarence handed him a shirt with a hole in it,” 35:19 · “Donald was sure it was a calculated personal betrayal.” 35:24 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 35:18 (passage 35:16–35:38); US record: No renewal found

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