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The Quiet One · Beat 245 · permalink

Field

46:20–46:40 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:2646:26Frame at 46:3646:36

Play from 46:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 138 · shots 493–494. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, wearing light-colored clothes, sitting on ground visible
Seen happening
  • A boy sits on a rocky slope. [frame:1]
Seen
rocky slope [frame:1], boy's clothing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary, reflective; themes: isolation, personal turning point; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, natural lighting, static framing

A boy sits alone on a rocky slope in a black-and-white film. A voiceover describes a turning point in Donald's life, but no names are attached to visible figures.

“What he made of this knowledge and what came of it brought about the most important turning point in Donald's life with us.” 46:28 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 46:26 (passage 46:20–46:40); US record: No renewal found

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