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Algiers · Beat 53 · permalink

Alley

18:28–18:45 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:3118:31Frame at 18:3618:36Frame at 18:3918:39Frame at 18:4318:43

Play from 18:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 133–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
alley (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted, wearing a hat and long coat visible
Seen
fence [frame:1], cityscape [frame:2], arched doorway [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nocturnal and tense; themes: urban isolation, mystery, nighttime pursuit; style notes: high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting, deep shadows, silhouetted figures, wide-angle cityscape shots

A silhouetted figure moves through a dark, narrow alleyway at night, with a view of a densely packed cityscape visible in the background. The scene is shot in high-contrast black and white, emphasizing shadows and architectural forms.

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 18:31 (passage 18:28–18:45); US record: No renewal found

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