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The Quiet One · Beat 335 · permalink

Bedroom

1:00:02–1:00:28 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 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:131:00:13Frame at 1:00:261:00:26

Play from 1:00:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 191 · shots 660–661. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a light-colored, loose-fitting garment, possibly a robe or nightshirt, with dark skin tone visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands near a cabinet in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • A person is seated, holding an object near their face. [frame:2]
Also said
“His extreme hypersensitive jealousy” 60:13 · “Oh, my God.” 60:16
Seen
cabinet, object held by person
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reflective and somber; themes: personal redemption, emotional release, isolation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, intimate framing

A person is shown in a dim interior, first standing near a cabinet, then seated and holding an object near their face. The transcript describes a character returning a lighter and relinquishing emotional claims, suggesting a moment of personal change.

“When he gave back the lighter, he didn't only begin to put an end to his stealing.” 60:02 · “He gave back his extravagant emotional claims on Clara.” 60:09 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 1:00:13 (passage 1:00:02–1:00:28); US record: No renewal found

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