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Algiers · Beat 130 · permalink

Private office

43:12–43:38 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:2543:25

Play from 43:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 301–301. 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
  • silhouetted, standing, appears to be wearing a hat or cap visible
  • silhouetted, standing, taller than p1, no distinct features visible visible
Also said
“Tell me, where did you leave Pio? Somewhere. I don't quite remember.” 43:28 · “Rue de la Beauvoir? That's it. You don't mind if I refresh your memory, do you? He went to see his poor old mother. How was she? I didn't see her. Why not?” 43:36
Seen
silhouetted figures, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: deception, memory, interrogation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouetted figures, tight framing

Two silhouetted figures converse in a dimly lit interior; one questions the other about Pio’s whereabouts and his visit to his mother. No names are spoken, and no objects or on-screen text are visible.

“Now, you see why I have completely changed my ideas about you.” 43:16 · “You're right. I was helping the boy out, nothing more. Of course.” 43:20 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 43:25 (passage 43:12–43:38); US record: No renewal found

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