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The Quiet One · Beat 338 · permalink

Bedroom

1:00:50–1:01:05 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:531:00:53Frame at 1:00:571:00:57Frame at 1:00:591:00:59Frame at 1:01:021:01:02

Play from 1:00:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 192 · shots 667–670. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • child, dark-skinned, sleeping in bed, wearing light-colored nightwear visible
  • adult, visible only by hands and arms, wearing light-colored long sleeves visible
Seen happening
  • A person holds a photograph showing figures in white clothing. [frame:1]
  • A child sleeps in a bed. [frame:2]
  • The photograph is held up again, showing figures in white. [frame:3]
  • A person's hands adjust something near the child's feet. [frame:4]
Also said
“this temporary home.” 60:55
Seen
photograph [frame:1], bed [frame:2], small box [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and intimate; themes: loss, temporary shelter, childhood vulnerability; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film, static camera

A person holds a photograph while a child sleeps in bed; the transcript mentions motherlessness and homelessness. No named individuals appear, and the setting is an interior space with dim lighting.

“He can better accept his motherlessness.” 60:50 · “His homelessness.” 60:53 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 1:00:53 (passage 1:00:50–1:01:05); US record: No renewal found

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