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Algiers · Beat 89 · permalink

Shop

28:00–28:31 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; 4 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 28:1628:16

Play from 28:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 212–212. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing, facing right visible
  • man in light coat and hat, standing, facing left visible
  • woman in full white veil, standing, facing left visible
  • woman seated, wearing patterned dress, holding object visible
Seen happening
  • A veiled woman stands between two men in a shop interior. [frame:1]
Also said
“Well, you know, women, they talk about nothing. I hardly listen.” 28:10 · “Was there anything special about her? Yes. Girls. The color I like. Handcuffs I can appreciate. Platinum and diamonds.” 28:10
Seen
veil, suit, light coat and hat, patterned dress, shelves with goods
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: gender dynamics, materialism, mystery; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A man in a suit speaks with another man in a light coat and hat, while a veiled woman stands nearby; a seated woman is visible in the background. The dialogue references an unpleasant experience, women, and jewelry.

“Why not? Good morning, Professor. Morning. Nothing unpleasant? Yes, we had one rather unpleasant experience.” 28:10 · “Yeah? With you. She didn't think so. What makes you so sure? What did she say?” 28:10 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 28:16 (passage 28:00–28:31); US record: No renewal found

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