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The Quiet One · Beat 234 · permalink

Sidewalk

44:02–44:08 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 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:0544:05

Play from 44:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 133 · shots 463–463. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a light-colored dress and a hat, holding something near the car door visible
  • boy wearing dark clothes, standing near a suitcase visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a boy stand beside a car with its door open. [frame:1]
Seen
car [frame:1], suitcase [frame:1], second vehicle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: departure, travel, childhood; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A woman and a boy stand beside a car with an open door; a suitcase rests on the ground nearby. The setting appears to be outdoors on a paved surface with trees and another vehicle in the background.

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 44:05 (passage 44:02–44:08); US record: No renewal found

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