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Algiers · Beat 122 · permalink

Private office

39:47–40:09 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:5239:52Frame at 40:0040:00Frame at 40:0540:05Frame at 40:0840:08

Play from 39:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 52 · shots 288–291. 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 earrings and a dark dress visible, audible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a light-colored collared shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is visible speaking to the man in a close-up. [frame:1]
  • The man is visible listening with a serious expression. [frame:2]
  • The woman continues speaking, looking at the man. [frame:3]
  • The man responds with a serious expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“All around you. Chubby. There's nothing else. You'll never have anything else. Chubby, I tell you. I am glad.” 40:00 · “There is no France for you. No Paris. No boulevard. Are you through? No.” 40:00
Seen
earrings, collared shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confinement, loss, power dynamics; style notes: close-up shots, high contrast lighting, black and white film

A man and a woman are in a tense conversation in an interior setting. The woman speaks of imprisonment and the loss of France, Paris, and the boulevard, while the man listens and responds with a serious expression.

“Never. I am the culp. I'll keep you. Just try to get away and you'll find out.” 39:47 · “It's funny what the police have come in and tried to arrest you. You're in prison already. You're” 39:47 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 39:52 (passage 39:47–40:09); US record: No renewal found

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