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Algiers · Beat 76 · permalink

Private office

22:53–23:05 Registered 1938

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

Frame at 22:5922:59

Play from 22:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 184–184. 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, dark suit, standing, imposing posture visible
  • person, light shirt, seated, holding gun visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands over a seated person holding a gun. [frame:1]
Seen
gun, desk or console with switches
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, power dynamics, arrest; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium shot, static framing, noir-like shadows

A man in dark clothing stands over a seated person holding a gun; dialogue indicates a confrontation about arrest. The setting is dimly lit and appears to be an interior space with equipment in the background.

“He's funny, my friends, Lee-Man. He looks normal, doesn't he? But he has delusions of grandeur. He thinks he can arrest me.” 22:54 · “That's exactly what I'm going to do, Pepe.” 22:54 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 22:59 (passage 22:53–23:05); US record: No renewal found

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