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The Stranger · Beat 57 · permalink

Bar

22:24–22:30 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:2722:27

Play from 22:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 86–86. 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
  • man, middle-aged, heavyset, wearing light jacket, dark tie, and cap visible
  • partially visible, wearing hat, standing opposite p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man smiles broadly while seated at a checkerboard. [frame:1]
Also said
“25 cents, please.” 22:28
Seen
checkerboard [frame:1], handwritten sign [frame:1], cap [frame:1], hat (worn by p2) [frame:1]
On screen
SPE ANT early am AT 'THE RED BAR BEHIND ADAMS T SEE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted, casual; themes: gambling, social interaction, local events; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white, focused on facial expression and props

A man in a light jacket and cap sits at a checkerboard, smiling broadly while another person, partially visible, stands opposite him. A handwritten sign advertises an event at 'the Red Barn' behind Adams.

“It's a game you got to keep your mind on.” 22:24 · “Ha!” 22:26 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 22:27 (passage 22:24–22:30); US record: No renewal found

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