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The Stranger · Beat 203 · permalink

Church

1:30:32–1:30:52 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:30:331:30:33Frame at 1:30:381:30:38Frame at 1:30:421:30:42Frame at 1:30:511:30:51

Play from 1:30:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 114 · shots 447–452. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
church (church, exterior) evidence: frame:2
Seen happening
  • High-angle shot of a church tower at night, with tree branches silhouetted against it. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of a clock face, partially obscured by shadows. [frame:3]
  • Overhead view of a crowd of people gathered below, some looking up. [frame:4]
Seen
church tower [frame:2], clock face [frame:3], crowd of people [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: suspense, public gathering, time as a motif; style notes: high-angle shots, chiaroscuro lighting, use of shadows and silhouettes

The sequence shows a dark, high-angle view of a church tower at night, followed by a close-up of a clock face and a crowd of people below. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 1:30:33 (passage 1:30:32–1:30:52); US record: No renewal found

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