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Algiers · Beat 119 · permalink

Private office

38:32–38:46 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:3438:34Frame at 38:3838:38Frame at 38:4138:41Frame at 38:4438:44

Play from 38:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 276–279. 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 with dark wavy hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a dark collar or scarf, seated visible, audible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing a light-colored collared shirt, reclining visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is seated and looking toward the man. [frame:1]
  • The man is reclining and speaking. [frame:2]
  • The woman leans forward slightly, appearing engaged in conversation. [frame:3]
  • The man continues speaking while reclining. [frame:4]
Seen
blouse, collared shirt, dark collar or scarf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: confinement, offered escape, emotional negotiation; style notes: close framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A woman and a man are in a dimly lit interior space, speaking to each other. The woman is seated and appears to be listening or responding, while the man is reclining and speaking.

“The cuspid's big enough. Not for me. It's like being in a grave. Perfectly.” 38:33 · “You understand much more of it. If you want to go away, I'll go with you.” 38:38 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 38:34 (passage 38:32–38:46); US record: No renewal found

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