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1:37:32–1:38:02 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 1:37:341:37:34Frame at 1:37:421:37:42Frame at 1:37:461:37:46Frame at 1:37:561:37:56

Play from 1:37:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 128 · shots 619–625. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • woman wearing a hat and coat, holding her face with both hands visible
  • Pepe (named at t:97:32): man wearing a hat and dark coat, mouth open as if speaking visible, audible
  • woman wearing a hat and dark coat, leaning back with eyes closed visible
  • man lying on brick floor, hands bound behind back, wearing dark coat and hat visible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds her face with both hands, appearing distressed. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat speaks, mouth open. [frame:2]
  • A woman leans back with her head tilted up, eyes closed. [frame:3]
  • A man lies on a brick floor with his hands bound behind his back. [frame:4]
Seen
hat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], coat [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], brick floor [frame:4], barrel [frame:4], bound hands [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: confrontation, distress, captivity; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high contrast lighting, static framing

A woman in a hat holds her face in distress while a man in a hat speaks; another woman leans back, and a man lies on the floor with hands bound. The transcript includes an apology addressed to 'Pepe'.

“I'm sorry, Pepe.” 97:32 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 1:37:34 (passage 1:37:32–1:38:02); US record: No renewal found

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