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The Quiet One · Beat 214 · permalink

Field

38:46–39:05 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). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:4938:49Frame at 38:5638:56Frame at 39:0039:00Frame at 39:0339:03

Play from 38:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 407–410. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark clothing, walking visible
  • dark clothing, walking visible
  • dark-skinned, wearing striped shirt, bound with rope, lying on ground visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures walk along a dirt path. [frame:1]
  • A person lies on the ground, bound with rope. [frame:3]
  • Tree branches are silhouetted against a bright sky. [frame:4]
Seen
rope [frame:3], dirt path [frame:1], tall grass and weeds [frame:2], tree branches [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, ominous; themes: confinement, nature as setting, suspense; style notes: high-contrast black and white, natural lighting, medium and close shots, static camera

Two figures walk along a dirt path in a grassy, overgrown area; one is later seen lying on the ground, bound with rope. The final shot shows tree branches against a bright sky.

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 38:49 (passage 38:46–39:05); US record: No renewal found

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