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Algiers · Beat 41 · permalink

Private office

15:19–15:40 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:2015:20Frame at 15:2215:22Frame at 15:2815:28Frame at 15:3715:37

Play from 15:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 107–110. 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 wearing a fedora and light-colored suit, holding a gun visible
  • man wearing a dark hat and dark coat, standing near p1 visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing in profile visible
  • man in dark suit, standing beside p3 visible
  • man in light-colored suit and hat, bending over during struggle visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, engaged in struggle with p5 visible
  • man in light-colored fedora, seen from behind near doorway visible
  • man in dark hat, standing near p7 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora aims a gun while another man stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • Two men in dark clothing stand in profile, looking off-camera. [frame:2]
  • Two men struggle near a doorway, one bending over. [frame:3]
  • A group of men in hats gather near a door, seen from behind. [frame:4]
Seen
gun [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], doorway [frame:3], framed picture [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, suspense; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing, static camera shots

Two men in hats are seen in a dimly lit interior, one aiming a gun while another stands nearby. A second shot shows two men in dark clothing standing in profile, followed by a scene of two men struggling near a doorway, and finally a group of men in hats gathered near a door.

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 15:20 (passage 15:19–15:40); US record: No renewal found

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