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Algiers · Beat 165 · permalink

Private office

55:34–56:05 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes 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 55:3555:35Frame at 55:4355:43Frame at 55:5155:51Frame at 56:0256:02

Play from 55:34 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 375–384. 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:2
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress and a prominent necklace visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible
Also said
“Am I?” 55:58
Seen
necklace [frame:1], dark suit [frame:2], wooden railing [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power dynamics, social etiquette, romantic tension; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior, exchanging terse dialogue. The woman asks to be released, the man refuses, and they trade accusations of rudeness.

“Let me go. - Why should I? Because I ask you. Say please.” 55:45 · “You're rude.” 55:55 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 55:35 (passage 55:34–56:05); US record: No renewal found

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