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Algiers · Beat 129 · permalink

Private office

42:08–43:12 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:4142:41

Play from 42:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 300–300. 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
  • wearing a light-colored robe and head covering, visible in profile visible, audible
  • wearing dark clothing and a hat, partially obscured, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two people stand close together in a dim room, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“How did I prove it? By going down into town with Pio. Not everybody would have done that.” 42:57 · “Oh, yes. And after that, you came back here. That was a brave thing to do. Yes, wasn't it?” 42:57
Seen
robe [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: recognition of courage, shifting interpersonal dynamics, self-doubt and reassessment; style notes: low-key lighting, tight two-shot, period costume, static framing

Two people converse in a dimly lit interior; one questions their own courage after being praised for accompanying someone named Pio into town. The dialogue suggests a shift in their relationship, with one acknowledging they underestimated the other.

“nervous? Why should I be nervous? Just it? Why? Well, it's only that usually you hardly say hello to me when you do, so I don't expect it when you don't.” 42:20 · “I'm a little spry when you do because you don't use it. Well, you see, I haven't appreciated you at your real value. That's a terrible. So I made a mistake.” 42:20 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 42:41 (passage 42:08–43:12); US record: No renewal found

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