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The Stranger · Beat 52 · permalink

Restaurant

21:04–21:17 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; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:0821:08Frame at 21:1521:15

Play from 21:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 76–77. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora, suit, and tie, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a light shirt, dark tie, and cap, seated across from p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated at a table playing checkers. [frame:1]
  • The man in the cap speaks while gesturing toward the board. [frame:2]
Also said
“Sharon Chanton?” 21:13 · “Uh-huh. No.” 21:15
Seen
checkerboard, fedora hat, sign with partial text 'A... AT THE R... BEHIND ADAM'
On screen
A... AT THE R... BEHIND ADAM
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: mystery, interrogation, everyday setting with underlying tension; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing focused on dialogue and facial expressions

Two men sit at a table in a public indoor setting, one wearing a fedora and suit, the other in a light shirt and tie; they appear to be conversing while playing checkers. A sign with partial text is visible behind them, and dialogue references 'School business' and 'Sharon Chanton'.

“School business?” 21:09 · “Yeah, I don't know.” 21:11 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 21:08 (passage 21:04–21:17); US record: No renewal found

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