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Algiers · Beat 90 · permalink

Shop

28:31–29:00 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 28:4628:46

Play from 28:31 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 36 · shots 213–213. 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, light shirt, tie, medium build, speaking visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and tie, standing behind counter, partially visible visible
  • man wearing turban, seated at right, dark clothing visible
  • woman with light hair, light dress, standing left background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit gestures while speaking to others near a counter. [frame:1]
Also said
“Was there anything else? What about the eyes?” 28:40 · “But all the chichi and jingle, you don't see much of that in the Casbah.” 28:40
Seen
counter with display items [frame:1], turban [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conversational; themes: cultural contrast, perception vs reality, materialism; style notes: medium shot, studio-lit, crowded framing, period costume

A man in a dark suit speaks to others in a crowded indoor setting with a counter displaying items; dialogue references perfume, jewels, and the Casbah. No named individuals appear, and the scene is lit with studio lighting.

“She didn't buy that perfume in Algiers.” 28:40 · “So all you noticed were the jewels and perfume.” 28:40 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 28:46 (passage 28:31–29:00); US record: No renewal found

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