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The Stranger · Beat 96 · permalink

Bar

42:17–42:45 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 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 42:2242:22Frame at 42:2942:29Frame at 42:3842:38

Play from 42:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 180–182. 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, wearing fedora and overcoat, heavy-set visible, audible
  • man, younger, dark hair, mustache, wearing plaid shirt visible, audible
  • Mary (named at t:42:18): woman, young adult, styled hair, wearing checkered coat visible, audible
  • Red (named at t:42:18): None mentioned
  • Noah (named at t:42:28): None mentioned
  • Mr. Wilson (named at t:42:32): None mentioned
Also said
“Good night, Mr. Wilson. Good night. Good night, Noah. Good night.” 42:32
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], pipe [frame:2], fedora [frame:2], checkered coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: mystery, concern for missing person, social interaction in public space; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

In a bar, a woman speaks about a missing person named Red while two men, one smoking a pipe, listen. The scene ends with farewells to Mr. Wilson and Noah.

“Mary, have you seen Red? Why no, not since I took him home to you a couple of days ago.” 42:18 · “No, that's why Noah's so anxious. Come on, then.” 42:28 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 42:22 (passage 42:17–42:45); US record: No renewal found

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