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Algiers · Beat 179 · permalink

Alley

1:00:28–1:00:50 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:291:00:29Frame at 1:00:311:00:31Frame at 1:00:361:00:36Frame at 1:00:441:00:44

Play from 1:00:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 413–417. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
alley (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, short hair, clean-shaven visible, audible
  • man in light suit, striped tie, dark fez-style hat visible
  • man in traditional robe and headwrap, standing in background visible
  • man in dark vest and headwrap, standing in group visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men in traditional attire stand in an alley. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit turns toward the camera with a serious expression. [frame:2]
  • The man in the dark suit moves forward, passing other figures. [frame:3]
  • The man in the dark suit confronts the man in the light suit and striped tie. [frame:4]
Seen
fez-style hat [frame:4], striped tie [frame:4], traditional robes and headwraps [frame:1], wooden shutters [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, cultural contrast, finality; style notes: tight framing, high contrast lighting, close-ups on faces to emphasize confrontation

Two men in suits confront each other in a narrow alley or corridor while other figures in traditional headwear are present. One man speaks, saying 'Well? Well, it's finished.'

“Well? Well, it's finished.” 60:30 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 1:00:29 (passage 1:00:28–1:00:50); US record: No renewal found

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