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35:33–35:52 Registered 1938

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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:4335:43

Play from 35:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 250–250. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman seen from back, wearing light-colored blouse and dark skirt visible
  • man wearing a fez and dark coat, seen from back visible
  • man seated at table, partially visible visible
  • man seated at table, partially visible visible
  • Inspector (named at t:35:43): unspecified, audible only audible
  • fiance (named at t:35:50): unspecified, audible only audible
  • Pepe Lamoco (named at t:35:50): unspecified, mentioned only mentioned
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man in a fez walk through a crowded outdoor space. [frame:1]
Also said
“- I can't wait to take it going to give me your invitation last night. - I'm glad. - Yes, we're all glad. Inspector, will you tell my fiance where I was last night during the shooting? - But with me. - There you see. And whom did we meet? - Pepe Lamoco. - Nice friends you have. In business one can't choose. You don't mean Pepe Lamoco, the famous criminal? The one they're all talking about? - He'd like to hear you say that. - Just a common lawbreaker.” 35:50
Seen
fez, tables and chairs, market stalls or awnings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social appearances, criminal association, romantic entanglements; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, naturalistic lighting, crowded composition

A woman and a man in a fez walk through a crowded outdoor space while dialogue reveals a discussion about marriage, an inspector, and a criminal named Pepe Lamoco. The setting appears to be a public market or bazaar with seated patrons and stalls.

“After all, you don't marry for fun. I didn't.” 35:37 · “No, Inspector. So you have already been. I took the liberty of presenting myself.” 35:43 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 Algiers (1938) at 35:43 (passage 35:33–35:52); US record: No renewal found

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