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41:17–41:42 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 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:2241:22Frame at 41:3441:34

Play from 41:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 127 · shots 439–440. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless boy, dark skin, young, visible in profile and three-quarter view visible
  • shirtless boy, dark skin, young, visible from behind and side visible
  • Clarence (named at t:41:21): unseen, referenced in transcript mentioned
Seen happening
  • A shirtless boy is shown in profile, looking off-camera. [frame:1]
  • Two shirtless boys are shown together in a dim room, one facing away, the other in profile. [frame:2]
Seen
plaid fabric [frame:1], dark interior background [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, subdued; themes: childhood, social integration, supportive relationships; style notes: close framing, high contrast lighting, black and white, static shots

A shirtless boy is shown in close-up and medium shots in a dim interior, with another boy visible nearby. The transcript mentions Clarence helping a boy begin to take his place among others.

“And for the first time, with Clarence's help,” 41:21 · “He begins to take its place among the other boys.” 41:24 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 41:22 (passage 41:17–41:42); US record: No renewal found

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