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Algiers · Beat 15 · permalink

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7:43–7:52 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 7:457:45Frame at 7:507:50

Play from 7:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 49–50. 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, light shirt, holding small object visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man in cap and jacket, mouth open as if speaking or shouting visible
  • man with mustache, wearing cap and eyepatch, holding camera-like device visible
Seen
small object held by p1 [frame:1], camera-like device held by p4 [frame:2], cap worn by p3 and p4 [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, surveillance; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close framing, black-and-white film stock

Two men are visible in a dimly lit interior; one holds a small object while the other looks on. A second frame shows two different men, one holding a camera-like device, in the same interior setting.

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 7:45 (passage 7:43–7:52); US record: No renewal found

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