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17:44–18:04 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 17:4617:46Frame at 17:4917:49Frame at 17:5817:58Frame at 18:0318:03

Play from 17:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 126–130. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing dark formal attire visible
  • woman, dark curly hair, wearing a patterned dress with a necklace visible
Seen
necklace [frame:2], patterned dress [frame:2], dark formal attire [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and tense; themes: personal confrontation, romantic tension; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

A man and a woman face each other in close-up shots in a dimly lit interior. The woman gestures with her hands while speaking to the man, who listens and responds with a slight smile.

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 17:46 (passage 17:44–18:04); US record: No renewal found

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