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The Quiet One · Beat 45 · permalink

Fire escape

9:14–9:24 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 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 9:199:19

Play from 9:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 95–95. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
fire escape (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure, wearing dark clothing, standing on fire escape visible
Seen happening
  • A silhouetted figure stands on a fire escape. [frame:1]
Seen
fire escape [frame:1], brick building [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: isolation, urban environment; style notes: high-contrast black and white, silhouette framing, static shot

A silhouetted figure stands on a fire escape against a brick building facade. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast lighting.

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 9:19 (passage 9:14–9:24); US record: No renewal found

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