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Impact · Beat 195 · permalink

Private office

1:23:11–1:23:33 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:151:23:15Frame at 1:23:241:23:24Frame at 1:23:301:23:30

Play from 1:23:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 299–301. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, blonde, mid-30s, wearing a striped dress with a white collar visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit and a fedora hat, standing visible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit, seated behind a desk visible
Seen happening
  • The woman leans forward over the desk, appearing distressed. [frame:3]
  • The man in the hat stands beside the desk, adjusting his coat. [frame:1]
Also said
“And I wish he had.” 83:30
Seen
typewriter, desk, fedora hat, striped dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: domestic conflict, threat and coercion, emotional distress; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, formal attire suggests mid-century office drama

A woman recounts a violent confrontation with a man who threatened her, while two men observe in an office setting. The scene includes a desk with a typewriter and a man in a hat standing beside it.

“I was to have gone with him to Denver.” 83:15 · “There was a violent scene. He threatened to kill me unless I agreed to give up Jim.” 83:24 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 1:23:15 (passage 1:23:11–1:23:33); US record: No renewal found

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