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Algiers · Beat 96 · permalink

Bar

30:45–30:54 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:5030:50

Play from 30:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 224–224. 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
  • young man with dark hair, wearing a dark jacket and light shirt, seated visible
  • older man with beard and mustache, wearing a striped shirt and dark vest, standing behind the table visible
  • man wearing a flat cap and dark jacket, seated and gesturing with his right hand visible
Seen
table [frame:1], flat cap [frame:1], striped shirt [frame:1], window blinds [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, social hierarchy; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up, static framing

Three men are seated at a table in a dimly lit interior; one man in a cap gestures while another listens intently. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 30:50 (passage 30:45–30:54); US record: No renewal found

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