Public Reel

Algiers · Beat 94 · permalink

Bar

30:17–30:44 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote 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 30:2230:22Frame at 30:3230:32Frame at 30:3630:36Frame at 30:4230:42

Play from 30:17 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 38 · shots 217–222. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark suit and white shirt, seated, holding cards visible, audible
  • man wearing a flat cap and dark jacket, seated, holding cards visible
  • man wearing a light coat and dark hat, standing behind the seated men visible
Seen happening
  • Hands are shown holding and arranging playing cards. [frame:3]
Seen
playing cards, flat cap, dark suit, light coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and introspective; themes: fate, regret, companionship; style notes: low-key lighting with strong chiaroscuro, tight framing on characters and hands, period costume detail

Two men sit at a table playing cards while a third man stands behind them; one seated man speaks about youthful ambitions and destiny. The setting is dimly lit with slatted shadows, suggesting an interior space at night or under artificial light.

“pursuits with such mediocre companions. By youth, I intended to become a statesman or a philosopher. But a man's destiny is written in the stars.” 30:25 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Algiers (1938) at 30:22 (passage 30:17–30:44); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Algiers_/b94.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite