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Algiers · Beat 38 · permalink

Private office

14:20–14:39 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 14:2314:23Frame at 14:3314:33

Play from 14:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 100–101. 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 in dark coat and hat, visible in profile visible
  • man in light shirt and dark trousers, standing in doorway visible
  • man in light jacket and hat, partially visible visible
  • man in dark coat, facing away visible
Seen
{'item': 'doorway', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'hats', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'coats', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, secrecy; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium shots, shadowy composition

A group of men stand in a dimly lit interior space, some in hats and coats, while another man in a light shirt is seen in a doorway. No dialogue is present in this segment.

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 14:23 (passage 14:20–14:39); US record: No renewal found

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