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The Stranger · Beat 123 · permalink

Private office

56:17–56:33 Registered 1946

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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:2256:22Frame at 56:2756:27Frame at 56:3056:30Frame at 56:3256:32

Play from 56:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 240–243. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a dark jacket and white collared blouse visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and patterned tie, with receding hairline visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman looks at the photograph while the man leans over her shoulder. [frame:4]
Also said
“If so, what?” 56:25 · “of shielding a murderer.” 56:27
Seen
bookshelves [frame:2], photograph [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: suspicion, confrontation, evidence; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera framing emphasizing dialogue

A woman and a man are in a room with bookshelves; the man asks if she suspects him of shielding a murderer and shows her a photograph. The woman appears surprised and looks at the photograph as the man leans over her shoulder.

“Of course, I can't be certain.” 56:19 · “Miss Dawson, do you suspect me of something?” 56:23 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 The Stranger (1946) at 56:22 (passage 56:17–56:33); US record: No renewal found

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