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Algiers · Beat 112 · permalink

Restaurant

36:18–36:48 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 36:1936:19Frame at 36:2736:27Frame at 36:3536:35Frame at 36:4636:46

Play from 36:18 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 50 · shots 255–261. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with dark curly hair, wearing a white jacket with black collar and a brooch visible
  • woman with lighter hair, wearing a striped suit and a hat visible
  • man with dark skin, wearing a fez and a suit visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a white jacket holds up a small object while speaking. [frame:1]
  • The same woman continues speaking, looking slightly to her right. [frame:2]
  • A second woman in a striped suit looks toward the first woman. [frame:3]
  • A man in a fez smiles while looking off-camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“The connoisseur can admire pearls without neglecting the wearer.” 36:20 · “Oh, he means if he stole your pearls, he'd steal you with them.” 36:20
Seen
brooch [frame:1], fez [frame:4], striped suit [frame:3], white jacket with black collar [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: romantic intrigue, social conversation, jewelry as symbol; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, black-and-white film, formal attire

Two women and a man are shown in conversation, discussing a third person who is not present. The dialogue references pearls and a potential meeting, with one woman expressing enthusiasm.

“Have you seen him sing? Uh-huh. This morning.” 36:20 · “Did he say anything about me? Well, in a way. Oh, I know. My pearls.” 36:20 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 36:19 (passage 36:18–36:48); US record: No renewal found

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