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The Stranger · Beat 140 · permalink

Street

1:04:13–1:04:19 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote 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 1:04:161:04:16

Play from 1:04:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 298–298. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, seen from side, wearing hat visible
  • partially visible person, face obscured, wearing light-colored coat visible
Seen
house with lit windows [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: moral consequence, parental concern, noir atmosphere; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, night exterior, medium shot framing

A man in a dark coat stands outdoors at night, facing another person whose face is not visible. The transcript mentions murder as evidence related to a daughter, but no names are spoken in this beat.

“However, the proof that murder is a thing would be the strongest evidence that your daughter could have.” 64:14 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 1:04:16 (passage 1:04:13–1:04:19); US record: No renewal found

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