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Algiers · Beat 176 · permalink

Private office

59:44–1:00:04 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:4659:46Frame at 59:5759:57

Play from 59:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 406–407. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man seated, dark suit, balding, middle-aged visible
  • woman standing, light blouse, dark skirt, mid-20s to 30s visible
  • Pepe (named at t:59:54): man standing, light suit, thin build, mid-30s visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits at a table while two others stand nearby. [frame:2]
  • A bottle and ashtray are visible on the table. [frame:2]
Also said
“It is a sad thing. Have you finished? I beg your pardon. It's very sad. You have fun of him. That's enough. Can a man talk?” 60:03
Seen
bottle, ashtray, wooden table, window blinds, wall mirror
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: grief, conflict, memory; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, minimal set design, period costume

A man sits at a table in a dim room while two others stand nearby; one of the standing figures is addressed as Pepe in the transcript. The scene includes a bottle on the table and dialogue referencing Pierrot and a sad situation.

“I was fond of Pierrot. I regarded him almost as his son.” 59:48 · “Pepe, there's no use in thinking about Pierrot. Don't you tell me what to think.” 59:54 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 59:46 (passage 59:44–1:00:04); US record: No renewal found

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