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7:15–7:56 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:187:18Frame at 7:397:39

Play from 7:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 74–75. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other)
People
  • Donald (named at t:7:42): young boy, dark skin, visible from shoulders up, wearing a collared shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A close-up of Donald's face is shown, showing a somber expression. [frame:1]
  • The close-up of Donald's face continues, with his eyes looking downward. [frame:2]
Also said
“These are the memories Donald lives in day and night.” 7:42 · “as early on that morning Grandma is out looking for him again.” 7:52
Seen
collared shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, introspective; themes: childhood trauma, family estrangement, memory and longing; style notes: extreme close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A close-up of a young boy's face is shown across two frames. The transcript describes memories of a boy named Donald, including his strained home life and his grandmother searching for him.

“The mother who has no room for him in her life.” 7:25 · “A home he hates so much that even at night he seldom comes back.” 7:34 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 7:18 (passage 7:15–7:56); US record: No renewal found

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