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Algiers · Beat 114 · permalink

Private office

37:02–37:16 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0937:09

Play from 37:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 266–266. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light blouse and dark skirt, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a room with a large mirror and ornate furniture. [frame:1]
Also said
“What are you doing? Nothing.” 37:10
Seen
large ornate mirror, wooden cabinet with decorative items, framed pictures on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, interrogative; themes: interrogation, suspense, private space; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period decor

A woman stands in a dimly lit room with ornate furniture and a large mirror; she is asked what she is doing and replies 'Nothing.' The scene is from the 1938 film ALGIERS.

“Tonight, Inspector, if it's convenient? Mm-hmm. Happy!” 37:04 · “Eh?” 37:09 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 37:09 (passage 37:02–37:16); US record: No renewal found

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