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Impact · Beat 155 · permalink

Gas station

1:03:46–1:04:05 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:551:03:55

Play from 1:03:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 233–233. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
gas station (shop, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in white coat, back to camera, medium build visible
  • Marsha (named at t:64:01): man in driver's seat of convertible, wearing vest, facing p1 visible, audible
  • man behind counter, wearing light shirt, smiling visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white coat stands beside a convertible while talking to the driver. [frame:1]
  • A man behind a counter smiles at the interaction. [frame:1]
Also said
“Don't bother, huh?” 63:59 · “Bye, Marsha!” 64:01
Seen
convertible car [frame:1], gas pump with 'Mobilgas' sign [frame:1], counter with glass display [frame:1], white coat [frame:1], vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, light; themes: social interaction, automotive culture, everyday farewell; style notes: medium shot, black and white, studio lighting, static framing

A man in a white coat stands beside a convertible at a gas station while another man sits in the driver's seat; a third man is visible behind the counter. The transcript includes casual farewells and comments about appearance.

“Maybe we'll see you tonight, huh?” 63:49 · “- Some shoulders, huh? - Yeah.” 63:56 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 1:03:55 (passage 1:03:46–1:04:05); US record: No renewal found

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