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Algiers · Beat 204 · permalink

Private office

1:05:38–1:06:24 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 1:06:011:06:01

Play from 1:05:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 459–459. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, adult, wearing a tuxedo, standing in doorway visible
  • woman, adult, dark hair, back to camera, wearing light-colored dress visible, audible
Also said
“Where is she? Where is she? You lied to me, didn't you? Answer me, didn't you? It was the only way I could keep you from going. If I'd asked you not to go for me, you wouldn't have listened to me. So...” 66:01
Seen
tuxedo, doorway with patterned curtain, wall mirror with ornate frame, decorative wall paneling
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: deception, romantic conflict, manipulation; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

A man in a tuxedo stands in a doorway while a woman with her back to the camera speaks to him. She claims another woman is waiting at his house to prevent him from leaving.

“Pepe! Pepe, don't go!” 65:39 · “Please, don't come. I didn't want to tell you this, but she's up there now. At your own house, waiting for you.” 65:40 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 1:06:01 (passage 1:05:38–1:06:24); US record: No renewal found

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