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Algiers · Beat 74 · permalink

Private office

21:45–22:22 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5221:52Frame at 22:0122:01Frame at 22:1222:12

Play from 21:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 30 · shots 178–180. 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:2
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing pearls and earrings, light-colored jacket visible, audible
  • hand holding a gun, wearing dark sleeve visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds a gun in a dark space. [frame:1]
  • A woman in pearls looks up and speaks. [frame:2]
  • The woman smiles while speaking. [frame:3]
Also said
“Poor old man. He has no luck. They won't even let him sleep in peace. Sometimes I feel sorry for them. They'll never get me by this technique, you know. I've tried to point that out to them.” 22:10
Seen
gun, pearl necklace, earrings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and defiant; themes: confrontation, resistance, sympathy for the enemy; style notes: high-contrast lighting, close-up framing on the woman, dark background emphasizes drama

A woman in pearls speaks while a hand holds a gun in a dark room. She mentions being surrounded and expresses pity for an old man, stating she won't be caught by their methods.

“let me help you” 21:56 · “So, they surrounded the house. Yes. They thought I was at Grand Père's.” 22:00 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 21:52 (passage 21:45–22:22); US record: No renewal found

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