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Algiers · Beat 252 · permalink

Private office

1:26:31–1:27:30 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:26:471:26:47Frame at 1:27:101:27:10Frame at 1:27:221:27:22Frame at 1:27:291:27:29

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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 552–555. 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
  • Pepe (named at t:86:37): man, dark hair, wearing dark jacket, standing visible, audible
  • man, wearing cap and loose coat, seated visible, audible
Also said
“You can go down without any risk. Go to the service entrance in the back of the hotel. She'll be watching from her window.” 86:51 · “Is that all? Of course she wanted to come out, but she couldn't get away. You are not going down, Pepe. You can't. I told you to shut up!” 86:57
Seen
lattice window, couch with patterned upholstery, dark jacket, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: confinement, duty vs. danger, secret communication; style notes: close framing, high contrast lighting, static camera emphasizing dialogue

Two men argue in a dimly lit room; one insists on going to deliver a message while the other tries to stop him. The dialogue reveals a woman is being watched and expects a visit at a hotel's service entrance.

“So you went to the hotel with the letter? I did it for you, Pepe.” 86:37 · “The answer? She wanted to write to you, but she couldn't. She's being closely watched, but she expects you this morning.” 86:44 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 1:26:47 (passage 1:26:31–1:27:30); US record: No renewal found

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