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Algiers · Beat 173 · permalink

Private office

58:06–58:21 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:0758:07Frame at 58:1058:10Frame at 58:1758:17Frame at 58:2058:20

Play from 58:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 394–398. 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 clothing, holding a gun, seen in profile visible
  • man in striped shirt and cap, appears older, medium build visible
  • man with disheveled hair, face partially shadowed, mouth open visible
Seen happening
  • A man points a gun at another man standing across the room. [frame:1]
  • The man in the striped shirt is shown with a hand gripping his shoulder, looking alarmed. [frame:2]
  • The man in the striped shirt is embraced or grabbed from behind by another figure. [frame:3]
  • A man's face is shown in close-up with a large shadow falling across it. [frame:4]
Seen
pistol [frame:1], striped shirt [frame:2], cap [frame:2], shadow on wall [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, power imbalance, fear; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on faces, use of shadow to create drama

A man holds a gun on another man in a dim room; the second man is then grabbed and appears distressed. The final frame shows a man's face with a shadow cast over it.

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 58:07 (passage 58:06–58:21); US record: No renewal found

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