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The Quiet One · Beat 314 · permalink

Railway tracks

55:58–56:07 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 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 56:0356:03

Play from 55:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 178 · shots 618–618. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway tracks (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person in dark clothing, wearing a hat, walking visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks along railway tracks. [frame:1]
Seen
railway tracks [frame:1], rocky terrain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: isolation, journey, nature; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor, medium shot, natural lighting

A person walks along railway tracks in a rocky outdoor setting as the day darkens. The transcript mentions Donald finding a mouth, but no name is visually confirmed.

“And as the day grew darker and colder,” 55:58 · “Donald found the mouth.” 56:02 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 56:03 (passage 55:58–56:07); US record: No renewal found

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