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The Quiet One · Beat 310 · permalink

Roadside and forest

54:46–55:02 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). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:4854:48Frame at 54:5254:52Frame at 54:5854:58

Play from 54:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 177 · shots 610–612. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
roadside and forest (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark clothing, medium build, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks along a roadside fence. [frame:1]
  • The person walks into a wooded area. [frame:2]
  • The person stands near a fence in the woods, seen from behind. [frame:3]
Seen
fence, road, trees, fence in woods
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary; themes: isolation, movement through nature; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, natural lighting, static camera

A person walks along a roadside fence and then enters a wooded area, moving away from the road. The sequence ends with the person standing near a fence in the woods, seen from behind.

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 54:48 (passage 54:46–55:02); US record: No renewal found

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