Private office

1:23:29–1:23:31 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

1:23:30

Play from 1:23:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 374–374. 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:1

People

man wearing dark coat and fedora, mid-adult, medium build visible
man wearing light coat and fedora, mid-adult, medium build visible
man in dark hat, partially obscured, mid-adult visible

Seen

fedora hat [frame:1], overcoat [frame:1], painting on wall [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, mystery; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, classic noir framing

Two men in hats and coats are visible indoors; one appears to be speaking or reacting. A third man is partially visible in the background.

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 1:23:30 (passage 1:23:29–1:23:31); US record: No renewal found

Permalink: always the current cut
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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/TheStranger_0/b177.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/TheStranger_0/b177"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/TheStranger_0/0374.webp" alt="Frame from The Stranger (1946) at 1:23:30 (passage 1:23:29–1:23:31); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Stranger (1946), 1:23:29–1:23:31. Internet Archive copy TheStranger_0; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "The Stranger (1946), 1:23:29–1:23:31", https://publicreel.org/moment/TheStranger_0/b177, from Internet Archive item TheStranger_0, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Private office

Evidence and details

The record

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