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The Quiet One · Beat 327 · permalink

Railroad tracks

58:11–58:26 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 quote 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 58:1858:18

Play from 58:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 186 · shots 650–650. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad tracks (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • distant figure, indistinct clothing, walking visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks along railroad tracks. [frame:1]
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:1], vegetation [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary, quiet; themes: return, isolation, journey; style notes: high-contrast black and white, long shot, natural setting

A lone figure walks along railroad tracks in a rural setting. The transcript indicates they are returning toward a school.

“They turned back toward the school.” 58:14 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 58:18 (passage 58:11–58:26); US record: No renewal found

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