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The Quiet One · Beat 207 · permalink

Private office

37:12–37:21 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:1637:16

Play from 37:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 390–390. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young boy, dark skin, short hair, wearing a striped short-sleeve shirt visible
  • unseen audible
Seen happening
  • A boy sits at a table and manipulates an object with his hands. [frame:1]
Seen
striped shirt [frame:1], wooden chair with curved back [frame:1], table [frame:1], object being manipulated by boy [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, instructional; themes: childhood, therapy, instruction; style notes: close-up, static framing, high-contrast black and white, studio lighting

A young boy in a striped shirt sits at a table, manipulating an object with both hands. A voice instructs him to try again.

“OK.” 37:13 · “Try it again.” 37:16 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 37:16 (passage 37:12–37:21); US record: No renewal found

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