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Algiers · Beat 103 · permalink

Private office

32:08–32:24 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:1232:12Frame at 32:1832:18Frame at 32:2232:22

Play from 32:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 236–238. 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:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing, holding paper visible
  • woman in light blouse, partially visible, seated visible
  • man in dark suit, seated at table, holding cup visible
  • man in light jacket and cap, seated at table visible
  • man in light jacket and cap, standing, holding paper visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit reads a document while a woman stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • Three men sit at a table; one holds a cup, another looks on. [frame:2]
  • A man stands holding a paper, looking at it. [frame:3]
Also said
“View them. Wait for me.” 32:19
Seen
paper, cup, wooden lattice window, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: business negotiation, document delivery, waiting; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costume, interior set design

A man in a suit reads a document while another person stands nearby; later, three men are seated at a table, one holding a cup, and another man stands holding a paper. The setting appears to be an interior space with dim lighting and wooden architecture.

“What are you hanging around for? This is business.” 32:09 · “Read this. Bad news?” 32:15 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 32:12 (passage 32:08–32:24); US record: No renewal found

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