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Algiers · Beat 105 · permalink

Private office

32:42–33:21 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 33:0233:02

Play from 32:42 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 45 · shots 241–241. 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, side profile, facing right visible
  • man in dark suit, facing left, slightly taller, visible from chest up visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a dim interior. [frame:1]
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], vertical light fixture or panel [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: personal conflict, unspoken history, power dynamics; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight two-shot framing, minimal background detail

Two men stand facing each other in a dimly lit interior space; one speaks about a woman's letter and her planned arrival. No names are spoken or visible, and no objects beyond clothing and architecture are identifiable.

“I'll do as I please.” 32:55 · “Oh, so. You'll do as you please. It's a good thing I like you. Now get out. Nice gift. What did she write you in her last letter? She had a cold. She said she'd start as soon as she felt better. Ah, then you knew she was coming. I sent her a month.” 32:57 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 33:02 (passage 32:42–33:21); US record: No renewal found

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