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Algiers · Beat 43 · permalink

Private office

15:55–16:13 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 16:0116:01Frame at 16:1016:10

Play from 15:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 112–113. 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 suit, seen from behind, profile visible in frame:2 visible
  • woman with dark wavy hair, wearing light-colored blouse and necklace, facing p1 visible
  • man in light-colored jacket and cap, standing in group visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing in group visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible on left visible
Seen
{'item': 'dark suit', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'light-colored jacket and cap', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'dark coat and hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'light blouse and necklace', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, secret meeting; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on faces, high contrast between light and shadow

A group of people are gathered in a dimly lit interior space; one woman speaks to a man in profile. The setting appears to be a private room or office, with no visible signage or time indicators.

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 16:01 (passage 15:55–16:13); US record: No renewal found

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