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The Stranger · Beat 95 · permalink

Bar

42:04–42:17 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 42:0742:07Frame at 42:1242:12Frame at 42:1542:15Frame at 42:1642:16

Play from 42:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 176–179. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing fedora and overcoat, heavy-set visible
  • man, younger, dark hair, mustache, wearing plaid shirt visible, audible
  • woman, young adult, styled hair, wearing checkered coat visible
Seen
fedora hat, overcoat, plaid shirt, checkered coat, DAD'S ROOT BEER sign
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conversational; themes: identity, suspicion, foreignness; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, studio set with visible signage

A man in a fedora and coat speaks to another man and a woman in a checkered coat; the dialogue references foreign strangers and accents. The setting appears to be an interior space with a visible sign for 'DAD'S ROOT BEER'.

“I was just trying to complete your mystery for you.” 42:06 · “Don't all foreign strangers have to have foreign accents?” 42:10 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 42:07 (passage 42:04–42:17); US record: No renewal found

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