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Algiers · Beat 106 · permalink

Private office

33:21–34:38 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 34:0034:00

Play from 33:21 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 46 · shots 242–242. 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, holding papers, standing visible, audible
  • Regis (named at t:34:11): man in light coat and headband, seated, holding papers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men compare handwritten letters for matching features. [frame:1]
Also said
“Rue de la Beauvoir. Where's that? Oh, I know it well a half-hour's walk. I can take you there if you wish to go.” 34:11 · “I've got to go. I've got to see you. Fortunately, you can rely on me. It's good of you to help me, Regis. You're a real friend.” 34:22
Seen
handwritten letters [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], light coat and headband [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful and analytical; themes: verification, friendship, correspondence; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume

Two men examine handwritten letters, comparing handwriting and spelling to verify their origin. One man, identified as Regis, offers to accompany the other to a location in Algiers.

“Well, in that case, it isn't so strange. And yet it's odd that she should arrive in Algiers like that without letting you know.” 33:27 · “Like a pair of Siamese twins. Then we'll see if they're both from the same mama.” 33:41 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 34:00 (passage 33:21–34:38); US record: No renewal found

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