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Algiers · Beat 55 · permalink

Alley

19:01–19:18 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 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 19:0419:04Frame at 19:0719:07Frame at 19:1119:11Frame at 19:1519:15

Play from 19:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 145–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
alley (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a fedora, seen in silhouette against a window visible
  • man in a fedora and coat, standing near a wall visible
  • man in a fedora and coat, holding a gun visible
  • man in a fedora and coat, running up steps visible
  • man in a fedora and coat, standing near a wall visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men is seen in the distance through a dark foreground obstruction. [frame:1]
  • Men in hats stand and move in a narrow alleyway, one holding a gun. [frame:2]
  • A man in a fedora is silhouetted against a window. [frame:3]
  • A man runs up steps while others stand nearby with a gun. [frame:4]
Seen
fedora hats [frame:2], gun [frame:2], stone walls [frame:2], window [frame:3], steps [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: concealment, pursuit, urban danger; style notes: low-angle shots, high-contrast lighting, use of foreground obstructions to create a sense of voyeurism or concealment

A group of men in hats moves through a dimly lit alleyway at night; one man is silhouetted against a window. The scene is shot from a low angle through a foreground obstruction, suggesting concealment or observation.

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 19:04 (passage 19:01–19:18); US record: No renewal found

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