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46:46–47:18 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:5046:50Frame at 46:5546:55Frame at 47:0347:03Frame at 47:1347:13

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 140 · shots 497–500. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • young person, dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, visible in close-up visible
  • person wearing dark pants and boots, only legs visible visible
Seen happening
  • A young person is shown in close-up, looking downward. [frame:1]
  • A wet, rocky ground with a white object lying on it is shown. [frame:2]
  • A person's legs and boots are shown walking away from a dark object on the ground. [frame:3]
  • The wet ground is shown again, with ripples and reflections. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, boy.” 47:03
Seen
white object on ground, dark object on ground, boots
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and reflective; themes: isolation, departure, reflection; style notes: high-contrast black and white, close-up and low-angle shots, natural outdoor lighting

A young person is shown in close-up, followed by shots of a wet, rocky ground with a discarded object and a person's legs walking away. The transcript includes the word 'Amen' and an exclamation 'Oh, boy.'

“Amen.” 46:48 · “I” 46:49 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 46:50 (passage 46:46–47:18); US record: No renewal found

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