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The Quiet One · Beat 96 · permalink

Street

18:38–19:07 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 18:5318:53

Play from 18:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 60 · shots 187–187. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • visible person standing near lamppost, wearing dark clothing, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands on a street near a lamppost. [frame:1]
Also said
“You even want to go home.” 18:54
Seen
car [frame:1], lamppost [frame:1], building [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to contemplative; themes: urban setting, solitude, returning home; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, static framing, street-level perspective, natural lighting

A street scene with a parked car and a person standing near a lamppost is shown. The transcript includes lines about wanting to go home after a while.

“Some definite thing to do.” 18:41 · “And after a while,” 18:52 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 18:53 (passage 18:38–19:07); US record: No renewal found

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