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The Quiet One · Beat 242 · permalink

Private office

45:38–45:49 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:4445:44

Play from 45:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 486–486. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young person, dark skin, wearing white tank top and dark pants visible
  • person seen from back, dark skin, wearing white tank top visible
  • person in patterned shirt, partially visible, moving visible
Seen
bed or cot [frame:1], doorway or window frame [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, institutional setting; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium shot, static camera, dramatic lighting

A young person in a white tank top stands in a dim room, facing another person whose back is to the camera; a third figure in a patterned shirt moves between them. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast lighting.

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 45:44 (passage 45:38–45:49); US record: No renewal found

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