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Algiers · Beat 120 · permalink

Private office

38:46–39:06 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:4738:47Frame at 38:5338:53Frame at 39:0139:01Frame at 39:0539:05

Play from 38:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 280–283. 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 curly hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a necklace and earrings visible, audible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, reclining in a chair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman looks at the man and speaks. [frame:1]
  • The man reclines and looks at the woman. [frame:2]
  • The woman looks down, holding something in her hands. [frame:3]
  • The man holds a cigarette and looks at the woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“Couldn't you be happy with me in Paris?” 39:01
Seen
cigarette, necklace, earrings, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: romantic longing, escape, uncertainty; style notes: close framing, high contrast lighting, static camera

A woman and a man are in a dimly lit interior, speaking about leaving for Paris. The woman expresses a desire to go, and the man questions if she could be happy with him there.

“Won't you take me? I wish I could.” 38:48 · “Paris is a long way off. I don't care. It's different there.” 38:54 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 38:47 (passage 38:46–39:06); US record: No renewal found

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