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Algiers · Beat 86 · permalink

Town square

26:53–27:19 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 9 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:0627:06

Play from 26:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 205–205. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light-colored suit, standing visible
  • man wearing a dark coat and hat, standing visible
  • man wearing a white robe and head covering, standing visible
  • man wearing a dark coat and hat, seated on ground visible
  • man wearing a light shirt and dark pants, seated on ground visible
  • man wearing a hat and dark suit, seated visible
  • Tanya (named at t:27:14): unspecified, audible only audible
  • Inspector (named at t:27:14): unspecified, audible only audible
  • Carlos (named at t:27:14): unspecified, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A group of men are gathered in a town square, some standing, some seated on the ground. [frame:1]
Also said
“Of course he did. Don't tell me a charming husband has been beating you again.” 27:14 · “You know how it is with a man. Well, I can't say I do. They seem to take to it naturally.” 27:14
Seen
arched doorway [frame:1], columns [frame:1], hats [frame:1], coats [frame:1], robes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: gender roles, domestic violence, social interaction in public space; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, naturalistic lighting, ensemble framing

A group of people is gathered in what appears to be a public outdoor space with arches and columns; one man sits on the ground while others stand or sit nearby. Dialogue references characters named Tanya, Inspector, and Carlos, and includes remarks about domestic violence and gender roles.

“Double him, girl. He'll never make it.” 27:08 · “Good morning, Tanya. Good morning, Inspector. And how is Carlos?” 27:14 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 27:06 (passage 26:53–27:19); US record: No renewal found

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