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The Stranger · Beat 66 · permalink

Private office

25:02–25:29 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 25:1125:11Frame at 25:2425:24

Play from 25:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 96–97. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Wilson (named at t:25:04): man in dark suit and hat, medium build, middle-aged visible, audible
  • Longstreet (named at t:25:04): man in dark suit, younger, clean-shaven, standing visible, audible
Also said
“Well, I wouldn't know. My brother-in-law's going to work on it. Is he up there now?” 25:14 · “No, no, he's on his honeymoon. He plans to work on it when he gets back. Oh” 25:22
Seen
clock [t:25:08], hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, conversational; themes: introduction, antique appraisal, family obligation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high contrast lighting, studio set

Two men converse indoors about a clock, its age, and a brother-in-law who will repair it after his honeymoon. One man, Wilson, is introduced; the other identifies himself as Longstreet.

“My name's Wilson. Oh, I'm Longstreet. No Longstreet. I'm glad to know you. Mr. Wilson?” 25:04 · “I couldn't judge any too well out front, but I'd say it was late 16th century. Probably by Holbrecht of Strasbourg. The clock.” 25:08 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 25:11 (passage 25:02–25:29); US record: No renewal found

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