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Algiers · Beat 121 · permalink

Living room

39:06–39:47 Registered 1938

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

Frame at 39:0939:09Frame at 39:1539:15Frame at 39:1939:19Frame at 39:3439:34

Play from 39:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 284–287. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Inez (named at t:39:08): woman with dark wavy hair, wearing a light blouse with a necklace and earrings visible, audible
  • man with short hair, wearing a light shirt, appears middle-aged visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman looks toward the man while speaking. [frame:1]
  • The man covers his mouth with his hand, appearing stressed or pensive. [frame:2]
  • The woman looks down, then back up, continuing to speak. [frame:3]
  • The man walks away from the woman toward a window. [frame:4]
Also said
“I want to get away. That has nothing to do with me.” 39:36 · “Do you know when you're going away? Never. You'll see. You can't do it.” 39:42
Seen
necklace, window with bars, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: confinement, emotional exhaustion, power imbalance; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, minimal set decoration

A woman and a man are in a tense conversation in a dimly lit room; the woman remains seated while the man moves away. The dialogue reveals the woman's frustration with her life and her desire to leave, which the man dismisses.

“You think I look funny in Paris. Answer me. But it isn't you, Inez. It's the Caspar. You belong here.” 39:08 · “I've stood it for two years. The time comes when you can't stand anymore. Morning, noon, and night.” 39:14 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 39:09 (passage 39:06–39:47); US record: No renewal found

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