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The Quiet One · Beat 78 · permalink

Bridge

16:31–16:35 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 names 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 16:3316:33

Play from 16:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 162–162. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bridge (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure, small scale, walking up ramp visible
  • silhouetted figure, small scale, walking up ramp visible
Seen happening
  • Two silhouetted figures walk up a steep, railed ramp or bridge. [frame:1]
Seen
railing [frame:1], ramp or bridge structure [frame:1], dark foreground shape [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, imposing; themes: scale, journey, obstacle; style notes: low-angle shot, high contrast black and white, silhouetted figures against bright sky, foreground obstruction creates depth

A low-angle shot shows silhouetted figures walking up a steep, railed ramp or bridge under bright sky. The foreground is dominated by a dark, out-of-focus shape, possibly part of a structure or vehicle.

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 16:33 (passage 16:31–16:35); US record: No renewal found

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