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The Quiet One · Beat 217 · permalink

Stone building exterior

39:41–39:59 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). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:4339:43Frame at 39:4739:47Frame at 39:5439:54Frame at 39:5739:57

Play from 39:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 418–422. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone_building_exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • young man, dark skin, short hair, wearing a light-colored shirt visible
Seen happening
  • close-up of a young man looking off-camera [frame:1]
  • exterior shot of a stone building with a figure walking in the distance [frame:2]
  • close-up of the young man looking down [frame:3]
  • a truck drives on a wet road [frame:4]
Seen
stone building, truck, wet road
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and contemplative; themes: isolation, journey, reflection; style notes: black-and-white, close-ups on the subject's face, wide exterior shot, naturalistic lighting

A young man is shown in close-up, followed by an exterior shot of a stone building with a figure in the distance, then a close-up of the same man looking down, and finally a truck driving on a wet road. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 39:43 (passage 39:41–39:59); US record: No renewal found

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