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Algiers · Beat 57 · permalink

Private office

19:39–20:01 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 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 19:4419:44Frame at 19:5519:55

Play from 19:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 150–151. 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 light jacket and dark tie, medium build, visible in frame 1 visible
  • woman in light dress with dark belt, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • man in light jacket and dark apron, enters frame 2 visible
Seen
doorway [frame:1], chair [frame:2], wall picture [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, dialogue; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, static camera, black and white

A man and a woman stand in a dimly lit interior space; another man enters and stands between them. The transcript contains a single line spoken off-screen or by one of the characters.

“A very profound observation.” 20:00 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 19:44 (passage 19:39–20:01); US record: No renewal found

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