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Algiers · Beat 45 · permalink

Private office

16:31–16:49 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:3316:33Frame at 16:3716:37Frame at 16:4516:45Frame at 16:4716:47

Play from 16:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 116–120. 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, dark hair, wearing a dark button-up shirt or jacket visible
  • woman, dark curly hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a necklace visible
Seen happening
  • man looks at woman with a serious expression [frame:1]
  • woman looks at man with a concerned expression [frame:2]
  • woman continues to look at man, mouth slightly open as if speaking or reacting [frame:3]
  • man smiles at the woman [frame:4]
Seen
necklace [frame:2], dark button-up shirt or jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but shifting toward warmth; themes: interpersonal tension, emotional shift, romantic or dramatic encounter; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, focused on facial expressions

A man and a woman are shown in close-up, facing each other in a dimly lit interior. The man's expression shifts from serious to smiling while the woman looks at him with a concerned or questioning expression.

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 16:33 (passage 16:31–16:49); US record: No renewal found

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