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41:23–42:02 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:4241:42

Play from 41:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 141–141. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, seated outdoors holding a newspaper visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits outdoors reading a newspaper. [frame:1]
Also said
“Someone might have caught her licking her chops.” 41:44
Seen
newspaper [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to contemplative; themes: solitude, observation; style notes: medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, black-and-white film

A man in a hat and light shirt sits outdoors reading a newspaper. The transcript mentions a widow and a comment about someone licking their chops, but no visual evidence confirms these references.

“Walter Williams beautiful widow who by her own recalls” 41:24 · “sat alone in the family alcove during the service” 41:30 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 Impact (1949) at 41:42 (passage 41:23–42:02); US record: No renewal found

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