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Algiers · Beat 187 · permalink

Bar

1:01:53–1:02:20 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:02:001:02:00Frame at 1:02:141:02:14

Play from 1:01:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 427–428. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark fez and light shirt, smiling in close-up visible
  • man in dark suit and white shirt, standing with hand on chin, looking serious visible
  • Pepe (named at t:61:55): man in light shirt, seated, facing p1 and p2, with a stern expression visible, audible
Also said
“When the time comes, they'll take off their hats and let you pass. I'll go out alive.” 62:15
Seen
bottles on shelf [frame:1], fez hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: confinement, defiance, fate; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Three men are in a dimly lit bar; one speaks to another, calling him 'Pepe' and referencing 'the Casper' and 'Pierrot'. The speaker warns that Pepe will leave 'feet first' unless he waits patiently, and Pepe insists he will go out alive.

“I'm your friend, Pepe. I know how you feel. You're a prisoner in the Casper. But the day will come when they won't be able to prevent your leaving. You'll go out of the Casper in spite of them all. I'll get out whenever I wish. When you go, you'll go quietly, the way Pierrot went. Feet first.” 61:55 · “Be patient.” 62:14 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 1:02:00 (passage 1:01:53–1:02:20); US record: No renewal found

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