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The Quiet One · Beat 295 · permalink

Field

52:52–53:01 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; 5 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 52:5352:53Frame at 52:5552:55Frame at 52:5752:57Frame at 53:0053:00

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 169 · shots 583–588. 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 in light shirt and shorts, playing basketball visible
  • boy in dark shirt, running visible
  • boy in overalls, sitting on ground visible
  • boy shirtless, back to camera visible
  • boy in light shirt, holding basketball visible
Seen happening
  • A boy dribbles a basketball on a dirt field. [frame:1]
  • A boy in overalls sits alone on the ground. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless boy and another boy with a basketball are visible. [frame:3]
  • The boy in overalls remains seated, looking off-camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“At the minute of a good night.” 52:59
Seen
basketball [frame:1], dirt field [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, contemplative; themes: childhood, solitude, play; style notes: black-and-white, natural lighting, medium and close shots, outdoor setting

A group of boys are outdoors on a dirt field; one is playing basketball while another sits alone. A squeaking sound and a spoken line about a good night occur during the sequence.

“*Squeak*” 52:52 · “Ah, dear.” 52:56 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 52:53 (passage 52:52–53:01); US record: No renewal found

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