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The Quiet One · Beat 249 · permalink

Outdoor riverside and indoor dormitory

47:18–47:51 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 47:1847:18Frame at 47:2847:28Frame at 47:3447:34Frame at 47:4647:46

Play from 47:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 140 · shots 501–506. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor_riverside_and_indoor_dormitory (other) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • young boy, dark skin, wearing a striped shirt and dark pants, thin build visible
Seen happening
  • A boy looks down at the ground near water. [frame:1]
  • The boy’s hands are shown touching pebbles or soil. [frame:2]
  • The boy crouches by a riverbank, looking at the water. [frame:3]
  • The boy stands indoors holding something, surrounded by beds. [frame:4]
Also said
“and try to transplant your affections.” 47:42 · “to go ahead.” 47:47
Seen
striped shirt [frame:1], pebbles or soil [frame:2], riverbank with trees [frame:3], beds with metal frames [frame:4], doors [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: contemplative and somber; themes: emotional resilience, childhood displacement, internal struggle; style notes: black-and-white, naturalistic framing outdoors, tighter shots indoors, low-key lighting in interior

A boy is shown outdoors near water and then indoors in a room with beds. The narration speaks of courage and emotional uprooting, suggesting a personal struggle.

“What Donald is trying to do takes a lot of courage, a strong will towards reality and” 47:30 · “to suffer the uprooting of the dearest thing you have known” 47:38 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 47:18 (passage 47:18–47:51); US record: No renewal found

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