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Algiers · Beat 279 · permalink

Jail

1:36:08–1:36:16 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names 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 1:36:121:36:12

Play from 1:36:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 605–605. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seen from back, wearing light-colored suit, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible on left visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible on right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light suit walks toward a barred gate. [frame:1]
Seen
barred gate [frame:1], light-colored suit [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confinement, authority, departure; style notes: medium shot from behind, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, institutional framing

A man in a light suit walks away from the camera toward a barred gate, flanked by two other men in dark suits. The setting appears to be an institutional or prison-like interior with metal bars and plain walls.

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 1:36:12 (passage 1:36:08–1:36:16); US record: No renewal found

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