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1:32:43–1:33:23 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:32:481:32:48Frame at 1:32:551:32:55Frame at 1:33:101:33:10Frame at 1:33:181:33:18

Play from 1:32:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 582–586. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with dark wavy hair, wearing a patterned blouse and earrings visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark suit, white shirt, tie, and a fez visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman and man begin a tense conversation outdoors. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks with a distressed expression while facing the man. [frame:2]
  • The woman continues speaking, her face showing emotional strain. [frame:3]
  • The man looks down with a somber expression as the woman speaks to him. [frame:4]
Also said
“I couldn't let him go. I couldn't lose him.” 93:08 · “I thought I'd figured all the moves behind this camp. I didn't think of you. They have just died.” 93:15
Seen
fez [frame:1], patterned blouse [frame:1], earrings [frame:2], suit and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: betrayal, possessive love, consequences of action; style notes: close-up framing emphasizes emotional intensity; high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s cinema; static camera focuses on dialogue delivery

A woman and a man in a fez have a tense conversation outdoors under foliage; the woman appears distressed while the man listens and responds. The transcript reveals she betrayed someone by preventing his departure, which she admits was to keep him, and he accuses her of causing deaths.

“We didn't expect you. He is not coming here. He's gone to the boat.” 92:47 · “So you're the one to betray him. You couldn't wait to run to me. You call it love, but it means you'd kill him before you'd let him go free. That's what you've done.” 92:53 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 1:32:48 (passage 1:32:43–1:33:23); US record: No renewal found

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