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The Quiet One · Beat 300 · permalink

Dirt field with trees

53:13–53:14 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 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:1453:14

Play from 53:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 172 · shots 593–593. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dirt field with trees (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • child, dark skin, shirtless, running visible
  • child, dark skin, wearing light shirt and dark shorts, running with ball visible
  • child, dark skin, crouching or sitting on ground visible
  • child, dark skin, partially visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • Children run and play on a dirt field with trees behind them. [frame:1]
Seen
ball [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: active, unstructured play; themes: childhood, outdoor play, community; style notes: black-and-white, handheld or medium shot, natural lighting, shallow depth of field with blurred background trees

Children are running and playing outdoors on a dirt ground with trees in the background. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 53:14 (passage 53:13–53:14); US record: No renewal found

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