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Algiers · Beat 11 · permalink

Private office

6:24–6:41 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 6 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 6:256:25Frame at 6:286:28Frame at 6:336:33Frame at 6:396:39

Play from 6:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 38–41. 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, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit and tie, seated at a desk visible
  • man, seen from back, wearing a light-colored suit and fedora, walking through a doorway visible
  • man, wearing a light-colored suit, striped tie, and a fez, gesturing with hands visible
  • man, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing behind p3 visible
  • man, wearing a hat and coat, bending over while holding a cane visible
  • man, wearing a uniform, standing behind p5 visible
Seen
{'item': 'desk', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'fedora hat', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'fez', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'cane', 'frame': 4}, {'item': 'uniform', 'frame': 4}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: authority, confrontation, formal attire; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots, static camera

A man in a suit sits at a desk in a dimly lit room; another man in a hat walks through a doorway into a brighter area where a man in a fez gestures. A man in a hat and coat bends over a cane while two others stand nearby. No dialogue 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 6:25 (passage 6:24–6:41); US record: No renewal found

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