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Algiers · Beat 123 · permalink

Private office

40:09–40:37 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 6 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 40:1140:11Frame at 40:1540:15Frame at 40:2740:27

Play from 40:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 52 · shots 292–294. 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, frame:3
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing earrings and a light-colored dress, visibly crying visible
  • man in profile, wearing a light shirt, facing p1 visible
  • man in light shirt, standing, gesturing with hands visible
  • man seated at table, wearing dark shirt visible
  • man in dark coat, seated, facing p3 visible
  • man in light shirt, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A woman cries while facing a man. [frame:1]
  • A dimly lit room with several men is shown. [frame:2]
  • A man in a light shirt stands and gestures while others sit around a table. [frame:3]
Seen
table [frame:3], chairs [frame:3], wooden beams [frame:2, frame:3], door [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotional; themes: emotional confrontation, group tension; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close-up on emotional face, then wide shot of group in shadowy interior

A woman is shown crying while facing a man in a close-up; the scene then cuts to a dimly lit interior with several men, one standing and speaking. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“Oh, my God.” 40:09 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 40:11 (passage 40:09–40:37); US record: No renewal found

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