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Algiers · Beat 174 · permalink

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58:21–59:14 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 9 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:2458:24Frame at 58:3058:30Frame at 58:3358:33Frame at 59:0459:04

Play from 58:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 399–404. 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, wearing a hat and dark coat, holding a gun visible
  • man, wearing a light shirt and dark jacket, being held at gunpoint visible
  • man, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing to the right visible
  • man, face in shadow, eyes open, looking upward visible
  • man, wearing a patterned sweater vest and dark pants visible
  • man, wearing a hat, bow tie, and suit visible
  • man, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing over a prone person visible
  • woman, wearing a light dress with dark dots and a necklace visible
  • person lying down, face up, wearing light clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds another man at gunpoint while a third man looks on. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows a man's face in shadow, eyes open, looking upward. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand side by side, one in a sweater vest, the other in a suit and hat. [frame:3]
  • A man and a woman stand over a person lying on the ground. [frame:4]
Seen
gun [frame:1], hat [frame:1, frame:3], sweater vest [frame:3], bow tie [frame:3], necklace [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: confrontation, suspense, human vulnerability; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close-ups for emotional impact, medium shots for group dynamics

A man is held at gunpoint by another man while a third looks on; a close-up shows a man's face in shadow; two men stand together; a man and a woman stand over a person lying down. No names or specific locations are established in the frames or transcript.

“Oh, my God.” 58:24 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 58:24 (passage 58:21–59:14); US record: No renewal found

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