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The Quiet One · Beat 212 · permalink

Field

38:10–38:26 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 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:1138:11Frame at 38:1538:15Frame at 38:1838:18Frame at 38:2538:25

Play from 38:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 397–402. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark clothing, short hair, medium build visible
  • light-colored shirt, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A net is swung through tall grass. [frame:1]
  • A white object is visible in the grass. [frame:2]
  • A person holds a net and looks into it. [frame:3]
  • A person bends over in tall grass. [frame:4]
Seen
net [frame:1], tall grass [frame:1], trees in background [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, observational; themes: nature, childhood, exploration; style notes: black-and-white, natural lighting, medium to long shots, handheld or static camera

A person is seen in a field with tall grass, using a net to catch something. The scene is outdoors and appears to be during the day.

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 38:11 (passage 38:10–38:26); US record: No renewal found

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