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The Stranger · Beat 81 · permalink

Private office

31:37–31:51 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 31:4431:44

Play from 31:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 143–143. 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
  • silhouetted figure, indistinct clothing or features due to low light visible
Seen happening
  • A person is visible in silhouette, possibly speaking or moving slightly. [frame:1]
Seen
silhouette of person
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, shadowy; themes: isolation, departure, domestic routine; style notes: low-key lighting, silhouette framing, static shot

A person speaks about leaving Harper and taking a dog for a walk, mentioning a clock and a new house. The scene is dimly lit with a silhouette visible in one frame.

“I'm leaving Harper tomorrow.” 31:37 · “extraordinary isn't it clock's being mr wilson's hobby too yes isn't it all right how do you like your new house he loves it come here rat i think i'll take you for a walk to this way oh darling you don't have to take him out just let him out he won't run off all right i need the walk i'm restless come on boy that's good how are you coming along i'll be in washington tomorrow” 31:42 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 31:44 (passage 31:37–31:51); US record: No renewal found

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