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Algiers · Beat 206 · permalink

Living room

1:06:35–1:07:53 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:141:07:14

Play from 1:06:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 461–461. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated, looking down visible
  • Lark (named at t:67:03): woman with dark hair, wearing light blouse and necklace, seated, smiling visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman sit together in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“You got this boat, Lark.” 67:03 · “No, you won't.” 67:38
Seen
sofa [frame:1], necklace [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], light blouse [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense yet playful; themes: romantic tension, chase metaphor, self-awareness; style notes: medium two-shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costume

A man and a woman sit together in a dimly lit interior, conversing. The woman speaks about luck and charm while the man listens; dialogue suggests a playful or tense dynamic involving a boat and a chase.

“I didn't know I could make such a fool of myself.” 66:37 · “You deserve something better than this. It's not what you deserve.” 66:45 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 1:07:14 (passage 1:06:35–1:07:53); US record: No renewal found

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