Public Reel

Algiers · Beat 253 · permalink

Private office

1:27:30–1:29:09 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; 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 1:27:321:27:32Frame at 1:28:221:28:22

Play from 1:27:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 556–557. 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, frame:2
People
  • man, mid-30s, wearing a dark coat and a cap, seated on a patterned couch, smiling broadly visible
  • man, mid-30s, wearing a dark shirt, standing, gesturing with his right hand toward p1 visible, audible
  • woman, partially visible in background, wearing a dark dress, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • p1 is seated and smiling broadly at p2 [frame:1]
  • p2 stands and gestures toward p1 while speaking [frame:2]
Also said
“The hotel is surrounded. They are waiting.” 88:47 · “Did you see the girl?” 88:53
Seen
patterned couch, dark coat, cap, dark shirt, wall with decorative lattice
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, surveillance, betrayal; style notes: close framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

Two men are in a tense conversation in an interior setting; one is seated and smiling, the other stands and gestures while speaking. The dialogue references money, a letter, and a surrounded hotel, suggesting a plot involving deception and surveillance.

“Tell me, what about the rose?” 87:35 · “Levin took the money. I saw him put it in his desk.” 87:55 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Algiers (1938) at 1:27:32 (passage 1:27:30–1:29:09); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Algiers_/b253.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite