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Algiers · Beat 237 · permalink

Private office

1:18:22–1:18:34 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:18:251:18:25Frame at 1:18:311:18:31

Play from 1:18:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 521–522. 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, middle-aged, wearing light suit, striped tie, and fez visible, audible
  • man, older, wearing dark suit, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the fez is visible in a medium close-up. [frame:1]
  • The man in the dark suit is visible from behind, near blinds. [frame:2]
Seen
fez, striped tie, blinds
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, conflict, exclusion; style notes: medium close-up on speaker, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a light suit and fez speaks while another man in a dark suit is seen from behind. The transcript mentions avoiding embarrassment and not returning to the Casper.

“Further embarrassment can very easily be avoided. She must not return to the Casper.” 78:22 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 1:18:25 (passage 1:18:22–1:18:34); US record: No renewal found

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