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Algiers · Beat 198 · permalink

Street

1:05:20–1:05:23 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:221:05:22

Play from 1:05:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 453–453. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • back view, dark coat, curly hair, medium build visible
  • side view, light shirt, hat, medium build visible
  • partial view, dark clothing, in background visible
Seen happening
  • People walk through a crowded alleyway. [frame:1]
Seen
makeshift stalls or awnings [frame:1], crowd of pedestrians [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: bustling, anonymous; themes: urban density, movement, anonymity in crowd; style notes: medium shot from behind, shallow depth of field, high contrast black-and-white, naturalistic framing

A group of people is seen from behind moving through a crowded, narrow alleyway. The setting appears to be an outdoor market or street with makeshift stalls and dense foot traffic.

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 1:05:22 (passage 1:05:20–1:05:23); US record: No renewal found

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