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Algiers · Beat 256 · permalink

Corridor

1:30:38–1:30:55 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:30:411:30:41Frame at 1:30:471:30:47Frame at 1:30:521:30:52

Play from 1:30:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 107 · shots 566–568. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
corridor (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat with a patterned shirt visible
  • woman in a low-cut dress, dark hair visible
  • figures seated or standing in background, indistinct visible
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], patterned shirt [frame:1], corridor with pillars and arches [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: suspense, urban nightlife, mystery; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight close-ups alternating with deep-space compositions, period costume

A man in a fedora and dark coat is shown in close-up, then a wider shot reveals a dimly lit corridor with multiple figures, including a woman in a low-cut dress and others seated or standing. The man reappears in close-up with a serious expression. No dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 1:30:41 (passage 1:30:38–1:30:55); US record: No renewal found

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