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The Stranger · Beat 170 · permalink

Private office

1:19:19–1:20:15 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 1:19:471:19:47

Play from 1:19:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 365–365. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Professor (named at t:79:19): man, middle-aged, wearing light-colored suit and tie, seated visible
  • Mr. Potter (named at t:80:00): man, middle-aged, wearing dark coat and hat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in dark clothing stands near a seated man at a desk. [frame:1]
Also said
“never done” 79:52 · “Good afternoon, Mr. Potter.” 80:00
Seen
fishbowl [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], desk [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, formal address, indoor setting; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a light suit sits at a desk while another man in dark clothing stands nearby; a fishbowl and glasses are on the desk. A line addresses someone as 'Professor' and another greets 'Mr. Potter'.

“Look there, Professor. I can tell you it's coming up for snow.” 79:19 · “Look here, Professor.” 79:43 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 1:19:47 (passage 1:19:19–1:20:15); US record: No renewal found

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