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Algiers · Beat 152 · permalink

Private office

51:54–52:17 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; 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 52:0652:06

Play from 51:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 352–352. 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, thin build, dark hair, clean-shaven visible
  • man in light-colored flat cap, heavier build, wearing a jacket over a shirt visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand close, facing each other in a tense confrontation. [frame:1]
Seen
flat cap [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: confrontation, power dynamics, male aggression; style notes: tight two-shot, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film grain, static camera

Two men are in a tense face-to-face confrontation in an interior setting; one man gestures while speaking, and the other reacts with visible agitation. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond clothing and a hat are clearly visible.

“Shut up. You can't talk to me like that.” 52:00 · “Okay. Okay.” 52:16 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 52:06 (passage 51:54–52:17); US record: No renewal found

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