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Algiers · Beat 115 · permalink

Balcony overlooking coastal city

37:16–37:39 Registered 1938

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; 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 37:2237:22Frame at 37:2937:29Frame at 37:3537:35

Play from 37:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 267–269. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
balcony overlooking coastal city (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, light blouse, dark skirt, visible in profile visible, audible
  • Pepe (named at t:37:29): man, dark hair, light shirt, bow tie, visible in profile visible, audible
Seen
ship, coastal cityscape, balcony railing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly wistful; themes: gaze, distance, longing, urban coastal setting; style notes: medium shots, high-angle view of city and sea, natural lighting, black-and-white film grain

A man and a woman stand on a balcony overlooking a coastal city and the sea, discussing a ship in the distance. The woman questions the man's gaze, and he identifies the object as a ship, noting it makes looking at boats easy.

“What are you looking at like that? France. You can't see France.” 37:23 · “Well, there is no harm in trying. Pepe, what are you looking at like that? A ship. Doesn't it make it easy to look at boat?” 37:29 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 37:22 (passage 37:16–37:39); US record: No renewal found

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