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The Quiet One · Beat 91 · permalink

Sidewalk

17:40–17:48 Released 1948; registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:4417:44

Play from 17:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 181–181. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, short hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, visible through a window visible
Seen
window frame [frame:1], vehicle wheel [frame:1], paved ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: medium shot through a window, high contrast black and white, static framing

A boy is visible through a window, standing on a paved surface with a vehicle wheel in the background. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 17:44 (passage 17:40–17:48); US record: No renewal found

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