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Algiers · Beat 141 · permalink

Private office

48:41–49:10 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 48:5648:56

Play from 48:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 327–327. 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, seated at table, facing right visible
  • man in striped shirt and cap, seated, looking down at cards visible
  • man in light cap, seated, partially obscured visible
  • man standing in background, wearing dark coat and hat visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Men sit around a table playing cards under a lamp. [frame:1]
Seen
{'item': 'table lamp with round shade', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'playing cards', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'framed pictures on wall', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and introspective; themes: loyalty, emotional distress, male camaraderie; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing around table, high contrast shadows

A group of men are gathered around a table in a dimly lit room; one speaks about emotional distress and loyalty to a friend. No names are spoken that can be tied to visible individuals.

“Drone? But you've got a heart. What's the matter with me? I'm not myself.” 48:44 · “is this concentrate he's thinking of piero yes of course worry over a friend can cause unutterable anguish to a sensitive nature you mean it makes him sweat a certain exudation hyperactuated by an emotional stimulation you don't mean him uh deal me out take care of regis never go back on a friend” 48:50 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 48:56 (passage 48:41–49:10); US record: No renewal found

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