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Algiers · Beat 80 · permalink

Private office

24:15–24:51 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:2424:24Frame at 24:3624:36Frame at 24:4524:45

Play from 24:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 188–190. 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 dark suit, tie, and fedora hat, standing visible
  • man with mustache, seated at desk, wearing dark jacket visible
  • man in uniform, standing in background visible
  • man in light jacket and cap, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and hat stands in an office while another man sits at a desk. [frame:1]
  • A man with a mustache speaks while seated at a desk. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit and hat walks past another man in a light jacket and cap. [frame:3]
Also said
“You may rest assured that I have the situation well in hand and will take whatever steps I deem advisable.” 24:22 · “Wire that to Paris immediately.” 24:22
Seen
{'item': 'desk', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'fedora hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'uniform', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'map on wall', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'ceiling fan', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and authoritative; themes: authority, bureaucracy, consequence; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man in a suit and hat stands in an office while another man sits at a desk; a third man in uniform is visible in the background. The transcript indicates a discussion about a wounded man named Pepe Limoco and instructions to wire a report to Paris.

“narrowly missed capturing Pepe Limoco. He was evidently wounded while escaping. In fact, his injuries may prove fatal.” 24:22 · “Why don't you just declare him dead and be done with it?” 24:22 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 24:24 (passage 24:15–24:51); US record: No renewal found

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