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Impact · Beat 175 · permalink

Living room

1:12:53–1:13:23 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:571:12:57Frame at 1:13:051:13:05Frame at 1:13:141:13:14Frame at 1:13:201:13:20

Play from 1:12:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 263–267. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Bill (named at t:73:21): man, mid-adult, wearing dark shirt, seated, arms crossed in frame 1, later holding socks visible, audible
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing polka-dot dress, seated, darning socks, hair in updo visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is darning socks at a table while the man sits across from her with arms crossed. [frame:1]
  • The woman continues darning, looking down at her work. [frame:2]
  • The woman looks up from her darning, holding the sock. [frame:3]
  • The man holds up a sock and speaks to the woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, I thought a drawful of holy ones isn't doing you much good.” 73:02 · “This is a problem, Bill.” 73:21
Seen
socks [frame:1], darning needle [frame:2], table lamp [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], bureau [t:73:06], holy cards [t:73:02]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and domestic; themes: domestic responsibility, secrets and concealment, interpersonal conflict; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A man and a woman are in a room with domestic furnishings; the woman is darning socks while the man sits across from her. The dialogue reveals the man's name is Bill and that the woman found holy cards in his bureau, prompting a discussion about mending and whether Marsha knows.

“What a day” 72:54 · “Hey, what's the idea? Are you darning my socks?” 72:58 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 1:12:57 (passage 1:12:53–1:13:23); US record: No renewal found

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