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Algiers · Beat 148 · permalink

Bar

50:35–51:07 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:4350:43Frame at 50:5450:54Frame at 51:0251:02

Play from 50:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 337–339. 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
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress and a necklace, seated visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit, seated, smiling in frame 3 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman and man are seated at a table with glasses, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman gestures while speaking about Paris. [frame:2]
  • The man smiles while listening to the woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“Do you know Paris?” 50:57 · “La rue Saint-Martin. Champs-Élysées. La Gare du Nord. L'Opera, Boulevard de Capucine. Arbès, La Chapelle. Rue Montmartre. Boulevard Rochechoir. Rue Fontaine. La Place Blanche.” 51:05
Seen
wine glasses [frame:1], necklace [frame:2], watch [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and wistful; themes: nostalgia for Paris, romantic tension, confinement vs. freedom; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing, black-and-white film stock, focused on facial expressions and dialogue

A man and a woman sit at a table in a dimly lit interior, speaking about Paris. The woman mentions specific Parisian streets and landmarks while the man listens and reacts.

“So you wanted to take another look at this strange wild animal. Strange, but not so very wild. How do you like my cage? I don't know yet. Do you like Algiers? I don't like traveling.” 50:35 · “Does it? I can't see Paris when I open my eyes in the morning. I want to go right back to sleep.” 50:50 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 50:43 (passage 50:35–51:07); US record: No renewal found

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