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Impact · Beat 35 · permalink

Sidewalk

12:05–12:12 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:0912:09

Play from 12:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 58–58. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light suit, dark tie, fedora, and holding a hat in one hand visible
Seen
signage for 'FOUNTAIN LUNCH' and 'DRUGS' [frame:1], car parked on street [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1]
On screen
PHOTO PRESCRI TRI lg
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: urban setting, everyday life; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film noir

A man in a suit and fedora stands on a city sidewalk near a drugstore and lunch counter. No dialogue or on-screen text beyond signage is present in this beat.

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 12:09 (passage 12:05–12:12); US record: No renewal found

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