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Algiers · Beat 47 · permalink

Private office

16:53–17:16 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 17:0517:05

Play from 16:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 122–122. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, visible from waist up, standing near lamp visible
  • man in dark suit, standing to right, partially in shadow visible
  • man in dark suit, standing left, mostly obscured visible
Seen
glowing lamp, scientific instruments on table, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: mystery, confrontation, scientific intrigue; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, medium shot framing, static camera

A dimly lit interior scene shows three men in dark suits standing around a table with a glowing lamp and scientific instruments. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 17:05 (passage 16:53–17:16); US record: No renewal found

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