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The Quiet One · Beat 83 · permalink

Street

16:47–17:02 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 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:4816:48Frame at 16:5416:54Frame at 16:5616:56Frame at 17:0117:01

Play from 16:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 167–172. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, dark skin, wearing a light short-sleeved shirt, visible in a dim interior visible
  • woman, light skin, curly hair, side profile, visible outdoors visible
  • woman, light skin, wearing a light dress, standing in a doorway visible
  • woman, light skin, wearing dark dress, standing in doorway with p3 visible
  • man, light skin, wearing a light sweater, holding a dark object visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light shirt is visible in a dim interior, touching his face. [frame:1]
  • Two women are visible outdoors, one in profile, near a sign reading 'OUR MOTTO'. [frame:2]
  • Two women stand in a doorway, one holding a bag. [frame:3]
  • A man in a sweater holds a dark object, possibly a bird, outdoors. [frame:4]
Seen
sign, doorway, dark object
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: departure, urban setting, human interaction; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots, static framing

A man in a light shirt is seen in a dim interior, then two women stand in a doorway, and a man in a sweater holds a dark object outdoors. One line is spoken: 'I'm going to go.'

“I'm going to go.” 16:48 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 16:48 (passage 16:47–17:02); US record: No renewal found

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