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Algiers · Beat 215 · permalink

Stone staircase under archway

1:09:07–1:09:12 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 1:09:101:09:10

Play from 1:09:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 473–473. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone staircase under archway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure in dark clothing, standing upright visible
Seen happening
  • A figure stands motionless at the top of a stone staircase under an arch. [frame:1]
Seen
stone staircase [frame:1], arched passageway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: isolation, architectural framing; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static composition, deep shadows

A single figure stands at the top of a stone staircase within an arched passageway. The scene is dimly lit with high contrast shadows, showing no other people or objects.

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 1:09:10 (passage 1:09:07–1:09:12); US record: No renewal found

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