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The Stranger · Beat 202 · permalink

Clock tower

1:30:10–1:30:32 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:30:121:30:12Frame at 1:30:171:30:17Frame at 1:30:281:30:28Frame at 1:30:311:30:31

Play from 1:30:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 114 · shots 439–446. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
clock_tower (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • dark silhouette, wearing a hat, climbing visible
Seen happening
  • A person is seen climbing a large clock tower. [frame:1]
  • The person continues climbing near the clock face, silhouetted against the structure. [frame:2]
  • The person moves past a circular mechanism and a statue on the clock tower. [frame:3]
  • The person reaches a statue and appears to interact with it or climb past it. [frame:4]
Seen
large ornate clock, statue, clock tower structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, suspenseful; themes: suspense, isolation, man against structure; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, dramatic shadows, gothic architecture, tight framing on the climber

A person climbs a large, ornate clock tower at night, moving past statues and clock mechanisms. The scene is dark and lit only by a single bright light source, emphasizing shadows and the clock's gothic architecture.

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 1:30:12 (passage 1:30:10–1:30:32); US record: No renewal found

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