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Algiers · Beat 172 · permalink

Private office

57:50–58:06 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 57:5357:53Frame at 58:0158:01

Play from 57:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 392–393. 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 striped shirt, heavy build, mustache, wearing a cap visible
  • man in suit, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in dark suit, standing to the right visible
  • woman in light dress, partially visible on left visible
Seen
framed picture [frame:2], small object held by p1 [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium close-up framing, static camera

A group of people stands in a dimly lit interior space; one man in a striped shirt gestures while holding an object. The setting appears to be a room with minimal furnishings and a framed picture on the wall.

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 57:53 (passage 57:50–58:06); US record: No renewal found

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