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The Stranger · Beat 160 · permalink

Private office

1:13:10–1:14:16 Registered 1946

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:13:121:13:12Frame at 1:13:231:13:23Frame at 1:13:341:13:34Frame at 1:13:551:13:55

Play from 1:13:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 338–341. 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 dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse, holding a black telephone receiver visible, audible
  • Charles (named at t:73:16): man with receding hairline, wearing a dark coat, seen from behind, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
  • man in dark clothing, partially visible in shadow visible
  • Mr. Peabody (named at t:74:13): man speaking off-screen, voice heard giving orders audible
Seen happening
  • A woman answers the phone. [frame:1]
  • A man listens on the phone next to a sign that reads 'GENTLEMEN DO NOT DEFACE WALLS! USE PAD'. [frame:2]
  • The woman continues speaking on the phone with a concerned expression. [frame:3]
  • A dark, blurry figure is visible, possibly moving. [frame:4]
Also said
“The church tower.” 73:31 · “What's that, Mr. Peabody?” 74:13
Seen
telephone receiver, sign: 'GENTLEMEN DO NOT DEFACE WALLS! USE PAD', telephone receiver, dark figure or object
On screen
GENTLEMEN DO NOT DEFACE WALLS! USE PAD
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: secrecy, urgency, communication under constraint; style notes: black-and-white, close-up shots emphasizing facial expressions, high-contrast lighting

A woman speaks on the phone while a man listens nearby; the conversation involves a secret meeting at a church tower. A separate scene shows a man giving orders about stacking wood, with someone asking 'What's that, Mr. Peabody?'

“This is Charles.” 73:16 · “He must come to the church immediately.” 73:27 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 1:13:12 (passage 1:13:10–1:14:16); US record: No renewal found

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