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The Stranger · Beat 93 · permalink

Bar

41:39–41:50 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:4141:41Frame at 41:4441:44Frame at 41:4741:47Frame at 41:4941:49

Play from 41:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 56 · shots 167–170. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a checkered coat and dark tie, medium build visible, audible
  • man, mid-30s to 40s, dark hair, mustache, wearing dark jacket, holding cigarette visible
Seen happening
  • Woman looks toward left, speaking [frame:1]
  • Man with cigarette is shown in close-up [frame:2]
  • Woman looks down at her hands, holding a small object [frame:3]
  • Man with cigarette looks off to the right [frame:4]
Also said
“Now, give me a second. It might break into a run.” 41:48
Seen
DAD'S ROOT BEER sign, cigarette, cigarette, metal beer tap or dispenser
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, observational; themes: suspicion, description of an outsider, barroom setting as a place of observation; style notes: close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

A woman in a checkered coat speaks while a man with a cigarette is shown in close-up; a sign for 'DAD'S ROOT BEER' is visible on the wall. The transcript describes a person with 'big starry blue eyes' and a 'queer walk' who might 'break into a run.'

“Kind of funny looking he was.” 41:42 · “A scrawny little fella with big starry blue eyes. Had a queer walk.” 41:43 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 41:41 (passage 41:39–41:50); US record: No renewal found

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