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Algiers · Beat 134 · permalink

Private office

45:06–45:40 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:2345:23

Play from 45:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 311–311. 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 wearing a dark cap and coat, seated, turned slightly away visible
  • man wearing a light-colored flat cap and coat, seated, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated facing each other in a dim room. [frame:1]
Also said
“Just relax. Take it easy. We understand how anxious you are about Bill. Here, take this.” 45:34
Seen
flat cap, dark cap, framed picture on wall, shelf with bottles
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: anxiety, reassurance, interpersonal tension; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, minimal set dressing

Two men are seated indoors; one speaks reassuringly while offering something to the other, who appears anxious. No names are spoken, and the setting is dimly lit with minimal decor.

“What's the matter? Huh?” 45:20 · “I've got to have a hand.” 45:31 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 45:23 (passage 45:06–45:40); US record: No renewal found

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