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The Stranger · Beat 178 · permalink

Private office

1:23:31–1:23:59 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:321:23:32Frame at 1:23:381:23:38Frame at 1:23:481:23:48Frame at 1:23:561:23:56

Play from 1:23:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 375–378. 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, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • woman with dark curled hair, wearing a light-colored coat with a ruffled collar visible
  • man in dark suit, wearing a ring on his left hand, holding a telephone receiver to his ear visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman turns her head toward the camera in a room with a door and wall sconce. [frame:2]
  • A large ornate clock is shown with hands near 12 and 3. [frame:3]
  • A man holds a telephone receiver to his ear and looks upward. [frame:4]
Seen
telephone receiver, wall sconce, ornate clock, door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, communication under pressure, isolation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A woman is shown in a room, followed by a close-up of a clock and a man on the phone. The transcript indicates a call to the state police about roadblocks and a railroad station.

“Mary.” 83:33 · “Operator Operator, get me the state police Yes, the roadblocks are up We're watching the railroad station And he's not hiding any words” 83:35 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 1:23:32 (passage 1:23:31–1:23:59); US record: No renewal found

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