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Algiers · Beat 149 · permalink

Private office

51:07–51:28 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote 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 51:0751:07Frame at 51:1351:13Frame at 51:1651:16Frame at 51:2651:26

Play from 51:07 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 62 · shots 340–348. 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:4
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a prominent necklace visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit and light shirt visible, audible
Seen
necklace [frame:1], suit [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, slightly tense; themes: fate, coincidence, personal encounter; style notes: close-up framing, low-key lighting, high contrast shadows, typical of 1930s noir-influenced cinema

A woman and a man are shown in close-up in a dimly lit interior; the man speaks the line 'What a small world.' The setting appears to be a private room or lounge with low-key lighting.

“What a small world.” 51:23 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 51:07 (passage 51:07–51:28); US record: No renewal found

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