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The Quiet One · Beat 58 · permalink

Private office

11:54–12:13 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). 2 quotes 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 12:0412:04

Play from 11:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 120–120. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure, possibly seated or leaning at a sink, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A person is visible at a sink in a dimly lit room with a mirror and telephone. [frame:1]
Seen
mirror [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], sink [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, intimate; themes: isolation, contemplation, unspoken emotion; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on a single figure, use of shadow to obscure identity

A dimly lit interior scene shows a person at a sink with a mirror and a telephone visible; the transcript includes the phrases 'and Judy without love' and 'Amen.' No named characters or specific time of day are established.

“and Judy without love.” 12:01 · “Amen.” 12:11 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 12:04 (passage 11:54–12:13); US record: No renewal found

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