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Algiers · Beat 25 · permalink

Bar

10:32–10:54 Registered 1938

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

Frame at 10:3810:38Frame at 10:4910:49

Play from 10:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 77–78. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, visible in group visible
  • man in light shirt, standing behind bar visible
  • man in light shirt, being held at gunpoint visible
  • man holding gun, face obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men stand in a dimly lit bar with tables and a counter. [frame:1]
  • A man holds a gun to another man's chest in a close-up shot. [frame:2]
Seen
gun, bar counter, tables and chairs, hanging lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, danger, power imbalance; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, tight framing in close-up, wide shot establishing crowded space

Two frames from a dimly lit interior show a group of men in a crowded room, followed by a close-up of a man holding a gun to another man's chest. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 10:38 (passage 10:32–10:54); US record: No renewal found

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