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The Quiet One · Beat 255 · permalink

Private office

48:56–49:08 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes 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 49:0249:02

Play from 48:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 145 · shots 516–516. 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
  • adult, wearing a coat or jacket, visible only in mirror reflection visible
Seen happening
  • A person adjusts their coat while looking in a mirror. [frame:1]
Seen
mirror, coat or jacket, draped surface
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reflective and hopeful; themes: self-perception, transformation, hope; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on mirror reflection, static framing, high contrast lighting emphasizing the face and coat

A person adjusts clothing while looking in a mirror; the accompanying voiceover describes the mirror as a window to a hopeful future. No names, time of day, or specific location are established beyond the presence of a mirror and a reflection.

“A mirror is no longer a focus for misery and self-hatred.” 48:59 · “but more like a window on a happy present and a hopeful future.” 49:03 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 49:02 (passage 48:56–49:08); US record: No renewal found

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