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Algiers · Beat 108 · permalink

Living room

34:55–35:16 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 34:5834:58Frame at 35:0535:05Frame at 35:1135:11Frame at 35:1535:15

Play from 34:55 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 48 · shots 245–248. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with dark wavy hair, wearing a light-colored jacket with a dark collar and a brooch visible
  • woman with light hair styled up, wearing a striped jacket and a headband or hat visible
Seen
curtains [frame:2], brooch [frame:1], striped jacket [frame:2], headband or hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: contemplative; themes: character focus, interpersonal tension, period costume; style notes: close-up shots, soft studio lighting, high-contrast black and white, alternating focus between two characters

Two women are shown in alternating close-ups in an interior setting with curtains and soft lighting. No dialogue or action is visible or audible in the provided frames.

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 Algiers (1938) at 34:58 (passage 34:55–35:16); US record: No renewal found

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