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Impact · Beat 230 · permalink

Alley

1:38:32–1:38:46 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 1:38:361:38:36Frame at 1:38:431:38:43

Play from 1:38:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 169 · shots 373–374. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
alley (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark coat, hat, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks through an alley [frame:1]
  • The person descends a staircase [frame:2]
Seen
fire hydrant, metal staircase
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, shadowy; themes: urban isolation, pursuit; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on alley and staircase, black-and-white

A person in dark clothing walks through a narrow alley and then descends a staircase. The only spoken word in this beat is 'Zoolin!', which is not clearly tied to any visible person.

“Zoolin!” 98:39 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 1:38:36 (passage 1:38:32–1:38:46); US record: No renewal found

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