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Impact · Beat 242 · permalink

Private office

1:46:12–1:46:35 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:46:241:46:24

Play from 1:46:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 396–396. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, white hair, dark suit, seen from back and side visible, audible
  • Mrs. Williams (named at t:106:13): woman, blonde curled hair, dark hat and coat with veil, earrings, holding a small object visible, audible
Also said
“This Jay Burns, Mrs. Williams, is his first name Jack? Yes.” 106:25 · “Have you been in contact with him lately? No, no. How long since you've seen or heard from this Jack Burns? Well, I don't know. I don't remember. You bet she doesn't remember because there isn't any Jack Burns and there never was.” 106:29
Seen
key [frame:1], dark coat with veil [frame:1], wood-paneled wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: deception, interrogation, identity; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing with wood paneling and dark costumes

A man confronts a woman in a formal interior, presenting a key and accusing her of lying about a person named Jack Burns. The woman appears defensive and denies recent contact, while the man insists the person does not exist.

“And this, Mrs. Williams, is the key to room 302.” 106:13 · “which you very carelessly left in the pocket of a coat which was found in your closet yesterday. All right, I was there. Now you're satisfied. Not quite.” 106:17 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 1:46:24 (passage 1:46:12–1:46:35); US record: No renewal found

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