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Algiers · Beat 246 · permalink

Private office

1:21:54–1:23:37 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:22:461:22:46

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 104 · shots 540–540. 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
  • woman, dark hair styled in waves, wearing a dress with a brooch, seated visible
  • man, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie and white vest, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits while a man in formal wear stands behind her. [frame:1]
Also said
“Why don't you mind your own business? I am.” 83:05 · “Chenille, Ben and Beaver.” 83:33
Seen
lamp, brooch, tuxedo, bow tie, white vest, furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: social obligation, personal agency, class distinction; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests upper-class setting

A woman sits in a room while a man in formal attire stands behind her; dialogue indicates plans to travel and deliver a letter. The setting appears to be a private interior space with furnishings and a lamp visible.

“What's got into him?” 82:00 · “So I guess I'll have to go downtown and give my personal attention to Madame Hardback. What steamer? The Ville d'Augé, 10 o'clock. Good. Make the reservation.” 82:16 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 1:22:46 (passage 1:21:54–1:23:37); US record: No renewal found

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