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Algiers · Beat 138 · permalink

Private office

47:42–48:09 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:4447:44Frame at 47:5747:57

Play from 47:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 321–322. 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 cap and striped shirt, seated on floor visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing visible
  • man in dark suit, standing visible
  • man in light shirt, leaning over table visible
  • man in cap and jacket, seated at table visible
  • man in dark shirt, standing at table visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men are gathered in a room with one seated on the floor and others standing. [frame:1]
  • Three men are gathered around a table with money and papers on it. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, that's bad.” 47:59
Seen
{'item': 'framed pictures on wall', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'money on table', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'papers on table', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'cap worn by seated man', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, gambling, tension; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-ups, static framing

Two men stand over a seated man at a table with money; another man sits nearby. A group is gathered in a dim room with framed pictures on the wall.

“Conor, Regis.” 47:45 · “The black spot.” 47:50 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 47:44 (passage 47:42–48:09); US record: No renewal found

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