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Algiers · Beat 159 · permalink

Private office

53:57–54:43 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 54:2054:20

Play from 53:57 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 69 · shots 364–364. 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, dark hair, wearing dark jacket, visible in profile visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing light-colored top, visible from behind visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are standing close together, possibly dancing or embracing. [frame:1]
Also said
“This all reminds me of when I was a kid. We used to dance in the streets on holidays, New Year's, First of May. 14th of July. How do you know? What do you think I was doing? Too bad you weren't in my neighborhood. With La Boyere. With La Boyere? That's where I live. I went to school on the hill.” 54:35
Seen
dark jacket [frame:1], light-colored top [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, nostalgic; themes: nostalgia, personal connection, urban memory; style notes: close framing, low-key lighting, static shot

A man and a woman are in close proximity, possibly dancing or embracing, in a dimly lit interior. The dialogue references past holidays, dancing in the streets, and a neighborhood called La Boyere.

“What are you laughing at? Nothing. Too bad. Too bad? Too bad I don't know you better. Why?” 54:16 · “When people laugh around me, I like to know why.” 54:26 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 54:20 (passage 53:57–54:43); US record: No renewal found

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