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The Quiet One · Beat 305 · permalink

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53:37–53:39 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). 2 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 53:3853:38

Play from 53:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 175 · shots 598–598. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • lower legs and feet visible; wearing dark shoes and light-colored pants or shorts visible
  • lower legs and feet visible; wearing dark shoes; holding a round, dark object (possibly a ball or helmet) visible
Seen happening
  • Two people stand on a rough surface, one holding a round object. [frame:1]
Seen
round object [frame:1], shoes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; style notes: low-angle shot, high contrast black-and-white, minimal framing focusing on lower bodies and object

A low-angle shot shows the lower legs and feet of two people standing on a rough, light-colored surface, with one person holding a round object. No names, dialogue, or clear location are provided in the frames or transcript for 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 53:38 (passage 53:37–53:39); US record: No renewal found

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