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Algiers · Beat 170 · permalink

Private office

56:39–56:54 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:3956:39Frame at 56:4756:47

Play from 56:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 389–390. 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
  • woman with dark hair, wearing earrings and a light blouse visible
  • Pate (named at t:56:41): man in dark suit, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, carrying a bound person visible
  • person bound and carried, face obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man stand in a dim room, the man speaking urgently. [frame:1]
  • A man carries a bound person through the same interior space. [frame:2]
Seen
wooden shutters, hanging lamp, bound person
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: capture, consequence, urgency; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups, static framing

A man and a woman are shown in a dim interior; the man speaks urgently about being caught by police. Another frame shows a man carrying a bound person through the same interior space.

“Pio!” 56:39 · “Where is he? Who? Regis. Where is he? Come on. They got me, Pate. The police. I didn't listen to you.” 56:41 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 56:39 (passage 56:39–56:54); US record: No renewal found

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