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The Quiet One · Beat 291 · permalink

Road

52:27–52:46 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:3052:30Frame at 52:3952:39

Play from 52:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 166 · shots 578–579. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult male, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing upright visible
  • Donald (named at t:52:31): younger person, dark hair, wearing a collared shirt, seen in profile visible
Seen happening
  • An adult and a younger person stand together on a dirt road. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of the younger person’s face in profile. [frame:2]
Also said
“The director and I agreed...” 52:39 · “We'd better give him a chance to work it out his own way.” 52:41
Seen
dirt road, trees and foliage, rocky background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: contemplative; themes: youth, solitude, adult guidance; style notes: static medium shot followed by a tight close-up; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; natural outdoor setting

Two figures stand on a dirt path outdoors; one is an adult male, the other a younger person. A close-up follows of the younger person’s face, showing them in profile against a rocky background.

“It was a question whether Donald needed more to talk out whatever was disturbing him.” 52:31 · “or live it out first.” 52:36 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 52:30 (passage 52:27–52:46); US record: No renewal found

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