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The Quiet One · Beat 216 · permalink

Field

39:22–39:41 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:2539:25Frame at 39:2939:29Frame at 39:3439:34Frame at 39:3939:39

Play from 39:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 414–417. 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
  • silhouetted figure, appears to be wearing dark clothing, running visible
  • silhouetted figure, running, less distinct than p1 visible
  • two figures walking side by side, one in lighter clothing, one in darker visible
Seen happening
  • Several figures run across a field at night. [frame:1]
  • Figures continue running across the field, one in lighter clothing visible. [frame:2]
  • Two figures walk side by side across the field. [frame:3]
  • Close-up of wet, muddy ground with footprints. [frame:4]
Seen
wet ground, field
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: pursuit, nighttime escape, natural terrain as obstacle; style notes: high-contrast black and white, handheld or shaky camera movement, low-angle shots emphasizing ground and motion

Four frames show figures moving across a rough, outdoor terrain at night, ending with a close-up of wet ground. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this segment.

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 39:25 (passage 39:22–39:41); US record: No renewal found

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