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Algiers · Beat 249 · permalink

Private office

1:24:36–1:24:56 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; 3 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 1:24:391:24:39Frame at 1:24:491:24:49

Play from 1:24:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 105 · shots 547–548. 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 lying on bed, dark shirt, medium build visible
  • Lobby (named at t:84:49): man standing, wearing coat, dark hair visible
  • Fox (named at t:84:56): man seated, light shirt, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on a bed while another stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • A third man is seated in the background as the standing man faces him. [frame:2]
Also said
“Ever got smoke, Fox? It's all right. You can talk. In fact, I'm ashamed of myself. What's new about that? Oh, it's worse than you think. I doubt it. Go ahead and insult me. I deserve it. You flutter yourself. It's about the letter from Quiro's mother. I brought it and gave it to Aisha, but I didn't know it was from the police. If I had known the letter was written by Regis, I wouldn't have done it. Never. Go on. It was really a woman who gave me the letter. If I had known the truth, I wouldn't have touched it. I'm an informer.” 84:56
Seen
bed, ladder, window with lattice, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confessional; themes: betrayal, regret, secrecy; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, static framing, period costume

A man lies on a bed while another stands nearby in a dimly lit room; dialogue reveals a letter from Quiro's mother was mistakenly delivered and is connected to the police. The speaker admits to being an informer and expresses regret.

“What do you want? We've been looking for you everywhere. Why weren't you at home?” 84:45 · “Because I'm here. What do you want, Lobby? - I must get to you alone. - What's the matter with that?” 84:49 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 1:24:39 (passage 1:24:36–1:24:56); US record: No renewal found

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