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Algiers · Beat 147 · permalink

Bar

50:17–50:35 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 50:2050:20Frame at 50:3050:30

Play from 50:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 335–336. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a suit and a fez, seated visible
  • man in dark suit, standing visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing a fur stole, standing visible
Seen
glass, fez, fur stole
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: cultural curiosity, nocturnal setting; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing, high contrast

A man in a suit and fez sits at a table with a glass; another shot shows two people standing close in dim light. The transcript mentions a 'checker tech block' and 'native music'.

“What's that one? It's a checker tech block. Never heard of it. Must be native music.” 50:25 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 50:20 (passage 50:17–50:35); US record: No renewal found

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