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Impact · Beat 244 · permalink

Courtroom

1:47:21–1:47:56 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:47:241:47:24Frame at 1:47:331:47:33Frame at 1:47:481:47:48

Play from 1:47:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 178 · shots 398–400. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Irene Williams (named at t:107:34): woman, mid-30s to 40s, wearing a dark hat with veil and dark dress, styled hair visible
  • man, 40s to 50s, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing upright visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a dark hat and veil looks forward with a serious expression. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands facing the woman; they appear to be in a courtroom. [frame:2]
  • The woman lowers her head, appearing distressed. [frame:3]
Also said
“We now ask for a dismissal of the state's case against Walter Williams.” 107:34 · “Oh, no.” 107:40
Seen
dark hat with veil, dark suit and tie, wood-paneled wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: legal drama, accusation, emotional reaction; style notes: close-up and medium shots emphasize facial expressions; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; formal courtroom setting

A woman in a dark hat and veil is shown in close-up and medium shots in what appears to be a courtroom; a man in a suit stands nearby. The transcript indicates a legal motion to dismiss charges against Walter Williams and to charge Irene Williams with conspiracy to commit murder.

“Just a moment, Mrs. Williams.” 107:24 · “Your Honor, in view of the evidence presented...” 107:28 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 1:47:24 (passage 1:47:21–1:47:56); US record: No renewal found

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