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The Stranger · Beat 53 · permalink

Restaurant

21:17–21:24 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.

Frame at 21:2121:21

Play from 21:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 78–78. 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
  • person seen from behind, wearing a dark cap or hat, seated across from p1 visible
  • person in background, wearing a light-colored shirt and dark cap, standing near counter visible
Seen
fedora [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1], table [frame:1], coffee cup [frame:1], diner counter [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or conversational; themes: confrontation, mystery, everyday setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high-contrast lighting typical of film noir

A man in a fedora and suit sits at a table in a diner, facing another person whose back is to the camera. The background shows other patrons and a counter, suggesting a public eatery.

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 21:21 (passage 21:17–21:24); US record: No renewal found

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