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The Quiet One · Beat 69 · permalink

School

13:52–14:12 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; 2 names 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 13:5913:59Frame at 14:0814:08Frame at 14:1114:11

Play from 13:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 138–140. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
school (school, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • boy, seen from behind, wearing dark shirt, thin build visible
  • child's face, peeking from behind door visible
Seen happening
  • A boy stands at a window looking out at a street. [frame:2]
  • A child peeks out from behind a partially open door. [frame:3]
Seen
double doors [frame:1], window with metal frame [frame:2], street with cars and buildings [frame:2], partially open door [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary, expectant; themes: isolation, childhood, institutional setting; style notes: static shots, high contrast black and white, medium and close framing

A boy is seen from behind looking out a window at a street scene, then peeks from behind a partially open door. The transcript mentions teachers not having time for him and a command to 'Come on.'

“The teachers can't spare time for him.” 13:52 · “Come on.” 14:08 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 13:59 (passage 13:52–14:12); US record: No renewal found

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