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Algiers · Beat 88 · permalink

Street

27:39–28:00 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:3927:39Frame at 27:5027:50

Play from 27:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 34 · shots 210–211. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark garment, leaning from a window visible
  • man in light-colored shirt and trousers, seated on ground visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, bending over p2 visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, standing with back to camera visible
  • man in turban and robe, standing in background visible
  • Pepe (named at t:27:39): unspecified speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A woman is seen leaning from a window. [frame:1]
  • Men are gathered below, one seated, one bending over him. [frame:2]
Seen
window, turban, hat, robe
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted with undertones of warning; themes: gender roles, cautionary advice, social interaction; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, staged composition with figures arranged in depth

A woman leans from a window while men converse below; dialogue warns Pepe about women. The setting appears to be an outdoor street or courtyard with figures in period attire.

“Good morning, Pepe.” 27:39 · “Good morning. Better watch out, Pepe. Women will be the death of you. It's a happy death. Just warning you. Don't worry, I'll keep my head. I may need it one of these days. No doubt. Coming my way? My pleasure.” 27:40 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 27:39 (passage 27:39–28:00); US record: No renewal found

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