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41:21–42:08 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; 4 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 41:4541:45

Play from 41:21 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 54 · shots 299–299. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, holding a cigarette visible, audible
  • woman in light patterned dress visible, audible
  • man in hat, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man in light shirt, visible over p2's shoulder visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in conversation while others stand in the background. [frame:1]
Seen
cigarette [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: waiting, absence, communication through dialogue; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up, static framing, black-and-white film

A man and a woman speak in a dimly lit interior while other figures stand in the background; the dialogue references a letter, a character named Regis, and someone named Pio who has not returned. The setting is not clearly identified beyond being indoors.

“What do you mean, to see his mother? He got a letter from her. Larby brought it. And then he went down with Regis. And then Regis came back, but Pio... I'm still waiting for him, that's all.” 41:33 · “Where's Aegis? At the Algerians. No need to go down.” 41:46 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 41:45 (passage 41:21–42:08); US record: No renewal found

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