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The Quiet One · Beat 223 · permalink

Living room

40:56–41:17 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 40:5940:59Frame at 41:0741:07Frame at 41:1541:15

Play from 40:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 127 · shots 436–438. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult male, dark skin, wearing a light-colored collared shirt, standing visible
  • Donald (named at t:41:07): child, dark skin, wearing a patterned shirt, seated, head bowed visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands over a seated boy. [frame:1]
  • The man leans closer to the boy. [frame:2]
  • The man looks down at the boy with a gentle expression. [frame:3]
Mentioned
  • The transcript mentions Donald feeling comforted for the first time. [t:41:07]
Also said
“In the past, when he was in trouble, Donald had nobody to turn to.” 41:07 · “Now, for the first time, he feels the life-giving warmth and gratitude that comes of being comforted.” 41:12
Seen
plaid curtains [frame:1], plain wall with peeling paint [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and tender; themes: comfort, solitude, human connection; style notes: close framing, high contrast lighting, static camera, black-and-white film

A man stands over a seated boy in a room with plaid curtains; the transcript mentions Donald feeling comforted for the first time. No names are visually confirmed, and the setting appears to be an interior room with minimal furnishings.

“Oh, my God.” 40:58 · “Oh, my God.” 41:02 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 40:59 (passage 40:56–41:17); US record: No renewal found

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