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Algiers · Beat 144 · permalink

Bar

49:40–50:12 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:4349:43Frame at 49:5949:59

Play from 49:40 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 60 · shots 331–332. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with dark curly hair, wearing earrings and a necklace, light-colored blouse visible
  • man in suit, seated at table, facing others visible
  • person seated at table, back to camera, dark hair visible
  • man with mustache, seated at table visible
  • man in dark suit, seated at table, profile visible visible
Seen happening
  • Woman looks toward camera with neutral expression. [frame:1]
  • Group of people seated around a table in a dimly lit room. [frame:2]
Also said
“Remember the time we were on the Nile and I thought it was Venice?” 49:50 · “Tell me, do they have native music here? On the photograph. Oh, well.” 49:50
Seen
necklace, earrings, table, glassware, wall sign with partial text 'OSS'
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational; themes: travel, cultural comparison, social gathering; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and medium group shot, low-key lighting

A woman is shown in close-up, followed by a wider shot of a group seated at a table in a dimly lit interior. The transcript includes dialogue about travel experiences and a question about native music.

“on 42nd Street. That's the thing about traveling. There's always something different.” 49:50 · “One time I was in Corsica and I thought I was in Turkey.” 49:50 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 49:43 (passage 49:40–50:12); US record: No renewal found

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