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Algiers · Beat 39 · permalink

Private office

14:39–14:59 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 14:4014:40Frame at 14:4314:43Frame at 14:4714:47Frame at 14:5414:54

Play from 14:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 102–105. 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:2
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light blouse and dark jacket visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near doorway visible
  • man in dark coat and cap, standing at table visible
  • man in dark coat, leaning over table visible
  • man in dark coat, standing behind p4 visible
Seen
jewelry [frame:2], chandelier [frame:1], table [frame:2], lamp [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, theft, negotiation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium shots, static camera, period costume

A woman and several men are in a dimly lit interior room with jewelry on a table. The group gathers around the table, and one man leans over it while others stand nearby.

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 14:40 (passage 14:39–14:59); US record: No renewal found

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