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Algiers · Beat 100 · permalink

Private office

31:12–31:30 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 31:1531:15Frame at 31:2231:22Frame at 31:2931:29

Play from 31:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 229–231. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with mustache, wearing a robe and cap, seated visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, leaning over table visible
  • man in dark suit, seated, wearing a cap visible
  • man in dark suit and open collar, close-up visible
Also said
“He has an ear, but not for poetry. I'm trying to think.” 31:25
Seen
table [frame:2], window blinds [frame:1], cap [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and contemplative; themes: conflict of intellect and emotion, social hierarchy in private space; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on faces, static camera

Three men are seated around a table in a dim interior; one speaks poetry while another interrupts him. A close-up shows a man in a suit looking intently forward.

“The moving finger writes.” 31:16 · “And having writ, moves on. Stop that nonsense.” 31:20 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 31:15 (passage 31:12–31:30); US record: No renewal found

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