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Beat 69

21:12–21:17 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 21:1421:14Frame at 21:1621:16

Play from 21:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 170–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • wearing a dark garment and a double strand of pearls, visible from the neck down visible
  • man with intense eyes, visible in extreme close-up visible
Seen
double strand of pearls [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, intimate; themes: intimacy, tension, jewelry as symbol; style notes: extreme close-ups, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

A close-up shows a double strand of pearls on a dark garment, followed by an extreme close-up of a man's intense eyes. No dialogue or location is established in this beat.

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 21:14 (passage 21:12–21:17); US record: No renewal found

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