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Algiers · Beat 91 · permalink

Market

29:00–29:33 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 29:1629:16

Play from 29:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 214–214. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
market (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, holding small object, standing visible, audible
  • man in light jacket and striped tie, leaning forward, listening visible, audible
  • background figures, including one in hat, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand close, one holding an object while the other leans in to listen. [frame:1]
Also said
“Huh?” 29:31
Seen
small object held by p1, stacked round items (possibly bread or pottery)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conversational; themes: moral consequence, uncertain relationships, legal jeopardy; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume, crowded background suggests realism

Two men converse in a crowded outdoor market; one holds a small object while the other reacts. The dialogue suggests a discussion about a woman and a potential prison sentence.

“She asked quite a few questions about you. Yeah? What did you tell her? What could I tell her? Why?” 29:02 · “You think she might be afraid of my past? No, but she might be a little appalled at your future. I told her you might get off for 20 years with a good lawyer. Oh, you wouldn't want me to get 20 years. You're too fond of me. What's her name? So, you're thinking about her. How could I be thinking about her when I don't know her name?” 29:10 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 29:16 (passage 29:00–29:33); US record: No renewal found

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