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Algiers · Beat 131 · permalink

Private office

43:38–44:13 Registered 1938

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

Frame at 43:4143:41Frame at 43:5243:52Frame at 43:5943:59Frame at 44:1044:10

Play from 43:38 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 56 · shots 302–307. 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
  • man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing light robe and cap, mid-adult, heavier build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man in suit points his finger while speaking to another man. [frame:1]
  • Man in robe and cap listens and responds to the man in suit. [frame:3]
  • Man in robe and cap smiles slightly while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yes, very natural. Exactly. Of course.” 43:50
Seen
lamp with round bulb, small figurine on lamp base, dark suit and tie, light robe and cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: betrayal, decision-making under pressure, personal sacrifice; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing, high contrast between light and shadow, static camera

Two men are in a dimly lit interior, one in a suit pointing while speaking, the other in a robe and cap listening. The dialogue suggests a discussion about someone leaving another person to return alone, with the speaker acknowledging it as natural.

“He thought she was in France. I think he got a letter. Did you see it? Just a glimpse.” 43:50 · “So you left him and you came back alone? He wanted to stay with her. That's natural.” 43:50 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 43:41 (passage 43:38–44:13); US record: No renewal found

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