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The Stranger · Beat 55 · permalink

Bar

21:49–22:20 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:0222:02Frame at 22:1822:18

Play from 21:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 83–84. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing a light shirt, dark tie, and a cap; seated behind a counter visible
  • man wearing a dark hat, seen from behind; standing visible
Also said
“He was more of a missionary type.” 22:00 · “Tiny little fellow he was. Finish. Unfortunate looking. Hurt your head, mister? No, no, no, nothing serious. Oh, that's too bad.” 22:06
Seen
checkerboard [frame:1], handwritten sign [frame:1], cap [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
On screen
AN early am AT "THE RED B BEHIND ADAM SEE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspicious and conversational; themes: mystery, unidentified person, casual interrogation; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up framing, static camera, black-and-white film

Two men converse in a dimly lit interior; one sits behind a counter with a checkerboard, the other stands facing him. A handwritten sign advertising an event is visible on the counter.

“Left a suitcase here and never did come back for it.” 21:51 · “He might have been one of them.” 21:55 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 22:02 (passage 21:49–22:20); US record: No renewal found

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