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Beat 204

36:31–36:39 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:3536:35

Play from 36:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 387–387. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Seen
hands [frame:1], textured surface [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: struggle, grip, tension; style notes: close-up, high-contrast black and white, focused on physical action

A close-up shot shows a pair of hands gripping a rough, textured surface. No people, dialogue, or identifiable location are visible in the frame.

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 36:35 (passage 36:31–36:39); US record: No renewal found

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