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The Quiet One · Beat 244 · permalink

Private office

46:00–46:20 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:0146:01Frame at 46:0346:03Frame at 46:0646:06Frame at 46:1446:14

Play from 46:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 489–492. 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
  • man in dark suit, light shirt, tie, balding visible
  • boy, dark skin, short hair, plaid shirt visible
Seen happening
  • man in suit stands near vertical slats, hand on railing [frame:1]
  • boy looks toward camera, expression neutral [frame:2]
  • dark doorway or passage, no clear figures [frame:3]
  • silhouettes of man and boy near vertical slats [frame:4]
Also said
“Not even his grandmother knew where she was.” 46:06
Seen
vertical slats or railing, plaid shirt, doorway or passage, silhouettes near slats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, tense; themes: absence, mystery, family disruption; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouettes, tight framing on faces and figures

A man in a suit and a boy in a plaid shirt are shown in dim interior settings; the transcript mentions Donald's mother has disappeared. No names are assigned to the visible figures based on the transcript.

“All right, okay.” 46:01 · “Donald's mother had disappeared.” 46:03 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 46:01 (passage 46:00–46:20); US record: No renewal found

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