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Algiers · Beat 150 · permalink

Bar

51:28–51:51 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:3551:35Frame at 51:4651:46

Play from 51:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 349–350. 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, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress and a necklace visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark clothing, seated visible
  • man, wearing a hat and uniform-like clothing, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A woman extends a cigarette toward a man seated across from her. [frame:1]
  • The woman holds a cigarette and lighter while speaking to the man; another man stands behind them. [frame:2]
Also said
“We're a long way from home.” 51:43 · “Excuse me.” 51:49
Seen
cigarette [frame:1], lighter [frame:2], necklace [frame:1], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: isolation, social ritual, unspoken tension; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up framing, high contrast black-and-white cinematography

A woman offers a cigarette to a man seated across from her in a dimly lit interior; another man stands in the background. The woman speaks about being far from home and asks for a light.

“- Cigarette? - Thanks.” 51:34 · “Is there a light?” 51:39 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 51:35 (passage 51:28–51:51); US record: No renewal found

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