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Algiers · Beat 139 · permalink

Restaurant

48:09–48:25 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:1148:11Frame at 48:1848:18Frame at 48:2448:24

Play from 48:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 323–325. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with dark wavy hair, wearing a light blouse with a dark skirt and layered necklaces visible
  • man in light suit and hat, standing in background visible
  • man seated at table, wearing dark jacket visible
  • person in white head covering, back to camera visible
  • unspecified person audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a dimly lit space with striped light falling across the wall beside her. [frame:1]
  • The woman is seen in a crowded room with several other people, including a man pointing. [frame:2]
  • The woman is shown in close-up, looking toward the camera, against a plain wall. [frame:3]
Seen
necklaces [frame:1], table with glassware [frame:2], hat [frame:2], white head covering [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and directional; themes: guidance, observation, social setting; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium and close-up shots, static framing

A woman in a light blouse and dark skirt is shown in three frames: first standing in shadow with striped light, then in a crowded room with others, and finally in a close-up against a wall. A voice says 'This way.' during the beat.

“This way.” 48:20 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 48:11 (passage 48:09–48:25); US record: No renewal found

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