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Algiers · Beat 264 · permalink

Street

1:33:23–1:33:46 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:33:261:33:26Frame at 1:33:381:33:38

Play from 1:33:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 108 · shots 587–588. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, dark hair, patterned dress, arms crossed visible
  • man, dark suit, tie, hat, standing visible
  • man, dark suit, tie, no hat, speaking visible, audible
  • man, dark suit, hat, standing to side visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands with arms crossed while a man in a suit speaks to her. [frame:1]
  • The group is shown from a wider angle; a car is visible behind them. [frame:2]
Also said
“But you knew! You planned it!” 93:25 · “With your help. Come on.” 93:25
Seen
car, hat, suit, patterned dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: betrayal, confrontation, urgency; style notes: medium close-up to medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A woman stands with arms crossed as a man in a suit speaks to her; another man in a hat observes. The scene shifts to show the same group from a wider angle, with a car visible in the background. Dialogue suggests betrayal and a planned trap.

“In a few more minutes, it might have been out of our hands.” 93:25 · “Don't go! Give him a chance!” 93:25 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 1:33:26 (passage 1:33:23–1:33:46); US record: No renewal found

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