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The Quiet One · Beat 73 · permalink

Street

14:47–15:05 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:4814:48Frame at 14:5114:51Frame at 14:5614:56Frame at 15:0115:01

Play from 14:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 144–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • adult, wearing dark coat, visible back visible
  • adult, older, light hair, wearing dark coat, holding object visible
  • child, dark hair, light shirt, seen from back visible
  • adult, older, light hair, wearing dark coat, standing in doorway visible
  • adult, wearing light shirt and dark pants, standing on street visible
  • group of children and adults sitting and standing on sidewalk visible
Seen
{'item': 'staircase', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'window with bars', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'doorway with ornate object', 'frame': 3}, {'item': "sign reading 'TAILOR'", 'frame': 4}, {'item': 'storefronts', 'frame': 4}, {'item': 'chairs on sidewalk', 'frame': 4}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: observational; themes: urban life, childhood, community; style notes: black-and-white, medium to wide shots, naturalistic framing of street life

A group of adults and children are shown in an urban street setting, with one child standing alone near a building and another scene showing a man in a doorway. The final frame depicts a wider street view with people gathered outside storefronts, including a tailor shop.

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 14:48 (passage 14:47–15:05); US record: No renewal found

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