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Algiers · Beat 75 · permalink

Private office

22:22–22:53 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes 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 22:3022:30Frame at 22:3922:39Frame at 22:4722:47

Play from 22:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 181–183. 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, seated, gesturing with hands visible, audible
  • woman with dark curled hair, wearing pearl necklace and light-colored dress visible
  • Papé (named at t:22:24): man wearing a fez and light-colored shirt with dark tie, holding a glass visible, audible
Also said
“You flatter yourself.” 22:42 · “Oh, you mean you won't show me in a cage? You're important now because you're free. Once you're behind bars, people will forget all about you.” 22:43
Seen
glass [frame:3], pearl necklace [frame:2], fez [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power struggle, imprisonment, vanity and legacy; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, focused on facial expressions and dialogue

Three people are in a dimly lit interior, engaged in a tense verbal confrontation. One man, wearing a fez, speaks directly to another man while a woman looks on; the dialogue references capturing 'Papé' and others and being forgotten once imprisoned.

“For once we agree, the inspector and I. I am the one who will get you, Papé.” 22:24 · “I can hardly wait for the day. - And not only you, but the others. Pierrot, Carlos, Grandpere, all of you. - And then what will you do? Put us in the zoo?” 22:30 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 22:30 (passage 22:22–22:53); US record: No renewal found

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