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Algiers · Beat 12 · permalink

Private office

6:41–6:54 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:456:45Frame at 6:506:50Frame at 6:536:53

Play from 6:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 42–44. 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:2
People
  • man wearing a light suit, striped tie, and dark fez, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man seated, wearing dark suit, holding a hat, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man standing behind p2, wearing uniform or military-style attire, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man standing behind p2, wearing dark suit, mid-adult, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • man in fez gestures with hands while speaking [frame:1]
  • man in suit sits holding hat, two men stand behind him [frame:2]
  • man in fez leans forward, continuing to gesture [frame:3]
Seen
fez [frame:1], striped tie [frame:1], hat [frame:2], bookshelf [frame:1], window with stained glass [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, negotiation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium close-ups, static camera, period costume

A man in a suit and fez gestures while speaking in a dimly lit room; another man sits with a hat in his hands as two others stand behind him. No dialogue is provided for this segment.

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 6:45 (passage 6:41–6:54); US record: No renewal found

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