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Algiers · Beat 2 · permalink

Private office

2:42–3:11 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:472:47Frame at 2:522:52Frame at 2:552:55Frame at 3:043:04

Play from 2:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–4. 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 suit and tie, seated at desk, middle-aged, thinning hair visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora hat, standing, medium build visible
  • man in light-colored uniform with epaulets, standing near doorway, older visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit sits at a desk while another man in a hat stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • The man at the desk handles papers. [frame:2]
  • The man in the hat turns and walks away from the desk. [frame:3]
  • The man in the hat walks toward a doorway as a uniformed officer watches. [frame:4]
Seen
desk, papers, fedora hat, uniform with epaulets, wall-mounted sign with number 24
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: authority, bureaucracy, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, minimal set decoration

A man in a suit sits at a desk while another man in a hat stands nearby; a uniformed officer is visible in the background. The scene shifts to show the man at the desk handling papers, then the man in the hat walking away as the officer watches.

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 2:47 (passage 2:42–3:11); US record: No renewal found

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