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The Stranger · Beat 168 · permalink

Shop

1:18:15–1:18:51 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:18:201:18:20Frame at 1:18:241:18:24Frame at 1:18:371:18:37Frame at 1:18:491:18:49

Play from 1:18:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 358–362. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a white coat and dark tie, seated at a table playing checkers visible
  • Mr. Potter (named at t:78:16): man wearing a dark hat and coat, reaching for an object on a shelf visible
  • Mr. Hill (named at t:78:16): man wearing a dark hat, partially visible behind a shelf visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white coat plays checkers at a table. [frame:3]
  • A man reaches for a hat on a shelf. [frame:2]
  • A man in a white coat moves a checker piece. [frame:3]
  • A hand holds a note with handwritten text. [frame:4]
Seen
checkers board, hat, note with handwritten text, shelf with items
On screen
4:00 leave Potter 4:05 HOME
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: time pressure, social interaction, everyday commerce; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium close-ups, static framing, dramatic lighting

A man in a white coat plays checkers while another man searches for earmuffs; a note is shown with handwritten times and names. The transcript includes dialogue about luck, shopping, and spending the afternoon.

“You sure are lucky today. I am. You sure are. Good afternoon, Mr. Potter. Good afternoon, Mr. Hill. I'm sorry, Mr. Potter. I can't find him. What? The earmuffs. It's right over there by the mittens. Come on, Mr. Potter. Help us, Lord. Well, I'll... We're right back in a minute, Professor. Right over there by that box where I told you there was. Those?” 78:16 · “thing out. How much do you want for it? 85 cents. That's an awful lot. Well, they come high this year. You want this thing? I'll keep it. You know, Mr. Potter, you're a bad influence. I, uh, I intended to only spend a couple of minutes. You made me spend the whole afternoon. Look what time did it. Yeah. I'd like to get even. It's your move. You” 78:46 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 1:18:20 (passage 1:18:15–1:18:51); US record: No renewal found

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