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Impact · Beat 42 · permalink

Bar

14:55–15:12 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; 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 15:0415:04

Play from 14:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 67–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, seated on a stool visible
  • person standing behind the bar, partially visible, wearing light-colored shirt visible
Also said
“Let's go.” 15:08
Seen
neon sign reading 'Blue Ribbon', bar counter with stools, stacked plates and bottles behind bar
On screen
Blue Ribbon
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, transactional; themes: urban nightlife, everyday commerce, brief human interaction; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1940s film noir

A man in a hat sits at a bar counter while another person stands behind it; a neon sign reads 'Blue Ribbon'. A voice requests a chicken sandwich and a Coke, then asks for change and says 'Let's go.'

“Chicken sandwich and a Coke. One chicken sandwich. Chicken sandwich coming up.” 14:56 · “Give me ten for a dollar, will you?” 15:07 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 15:04 (passage 14:55–15:12); US record: No renewal found

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