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Algiers · Beat 223 · permalink

Private office

1:11:24–1:11:54 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:11:291:11:29Frame at 1:11:401:11:40Frame at 1:11:501:11:50

Play from 1:11:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 96 · shots 489–491. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • woman, dark hair styled in waves, wearing a dark dress and a necklace visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a suit and tie, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Woman looks over her shoulder toward the camera. [frame:1]
  • Man sits forward, looking intently. [frame:2]
  • Woman turns her back to the camera, walking away. [frame:3]
Also said
“Can't you ever get away from the cusper? Why do you ask? Can't you? No, I'm caught here. Like a bear in a hole. Dogs barking, hunters all around. No way out of it. You like that?” 71:32
Seen
necklace, coat rack with curved arms
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and claustrophobic; themes: entrapment, fate, dialogue-driven tension; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on faces, static camera emphasizing emotional weight

A woman and a man speak in a dimly lit interior; the woman turns away as the man describes being trapped. The dialogue suggests a tense, confined situation with no escape.

“Suppose you don't come tomorrow?” 71:26 · “Suppose I don't.” 71:30 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 1:11:29 (passage 1:11:24–1:11:54); US record: No renewal found

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