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The Quiet One · Beat 344 · permalink

Street

1:03:16–1:03:46 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:201:03:20Frame at 1:03:351:03:35

Play from 1:03:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 192 · shots 690–691. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • A dimly lit street with scattered lights and a dark building is visible. [frame:1]
  • A dark silhouette of a building with a faint light source is visible. [frame:2]
Also said
“Lovelessness.” 63:26 · “And who in the world which disfigures them” 63:32
Seen
streetlights, building silhouette
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: urban isolation, social neglect, emotional distress; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, low-key lighting, static framing

Two night shots show a dimly lit urban street with distant lights and a dark building silhouette. The transcript speaks of emotional states and societal neglect without naming individuals or places.

“whom poverty, bewilderment, anger,” 63:17 · “Pride. Fear.” 63:23 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 1:03:20 (passage 1:03:16–1:03:46); US record: No renewal found

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