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Algiers · Beat 241 · permalink

Private office

1:20:14–1:21:21 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:20:391:20:39Frame at 1:21:061:21:06Frame at 1:21:141:21:14

Play from 1:20:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 531–533. 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:3
People
  • woman with dark curly hair, wearing a patterned blouse and large earrings visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • The woman looks stunned and turns toward a window. [frame:1]
  • The woman stares forward with a pained expression. [frame:2]
  • The woman stands in a room with barred windows and a wall calendar, looking distressed. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'm sorry.” 80:44
Seen
barred window [frame:3], wall calendar [frame:3], large earrings [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: loss, betrayal, consequences of violence; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups, static framing emphasizing emotional reaction

A woman is told that Pepelemocco was killed during an attempted capture. She reacts with shock and sorrow in a dimly lit interior room.

“Do it, Gabby, don't.” 80:14 · “No. What? You can't go to the Casper. But really? Your fiancé was trying to spare you. He didn't want to tell you the truth as I told him. An attempt was made to capture Pepelemocco this afternoon. In a sense, it was successful. He was taken? Not alive. He was killed.” 80:20 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 1:20:39 (passage 1:20:14–1:21:21); US record: No renewal found

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