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Algiers · Beat 243 · permalink

Private office

1:21:23–1:21:41 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:21:261:21:26Frame at 1:21:301:21:30Frame at 1:21:361:21:36

Play from 1:21:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 535–537. 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:2
People
  • Claude Blanche (named at t:81:39): woman with dark wavy hair, wearing a patterned blouse and large earrings visible, audible
  • man in a dark suit, seated, hands clasped visible
Seen happening
  • The woman is visible in a medium close-up, looking forward. [frame:1]
  • The man is visible seated in an ornate chair, looking to his right. [frame:2]
  • The woman is visible again in a medium close-up, expression unchanged. [frame:3]
Seen
ornate chair, patterned blouse, large earrings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: identity, assertion of self-worth, gender dynamics; style notes: static medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast lighting, studio-bound composition

A woman and a man are in a dimly lit interior; the woman speaks about it being Thursday and defends her intelligence, while the man sits in a chair. The woman is later identified by spoken name as Claude Blanche.

“I just came to tell you it's Thursday. I know. I was right all the time. You see, I'm not such a fool as you think.” 81:27 · “So this is the Claude Blanche.” 81:39 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 1:21:26 (passage 1:21:23–1:21:41); US record: No renewal found

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