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8:51–9:13 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 8:578:57Frame at 9:049:04Frame at 9:109:10

Play from 8:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 63–65. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, holding small object, clean-shaven, mid-adult visible
  • man in light-colored suit, seated, older, with white hair visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing, mid-adult visible
  • man in light-colored shirt and dark jacket, mid-adult visible
  • woman with dark hair, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen
small object held by p1, fedora hat, large vase or urn, barred window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium close-ups, static camera

Two men are shown in close interaction in a dimly lit interior space; one holds a small object. A third man in a hat stands near a seated older man in a separate shot, suggesting a separate group within the same room.

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 8:57 (passage 8:51–9:13); US record: No renewal found

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