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Algiers · Beat 83 · permalink

Private office

25:39–26:10 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:4525:45Frame at 25:5325:53Frame at 26:0126:01Frame at 26:0826:08

Play from 25:39 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 33 · shots 197–200. 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
  • man wearing a fez and light jacket, smiling, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated at desk, mustache, serious expression visible
  • man in dark suit standing in background, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fez smiles broadly at the camera. [frame:1]
  • The man in the fez leans over a desk toward a seated man in a suit, gesturing with his hand. [frame:2]
  • The man in the fez leans forward with a knowing expression. [frame:3]
  • The seated man in the suit stares forward with a stern expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, but a little bonus besides in view of the circumstances. Agreed.” 26:05 · “How do we know we can trust you not to make a better bargain with Pepe? I'm an informer.” 26:05
Seen
desk [frame:2], fez [frame:1], suit [frame:2], window blinds [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: negotiation, betrayal, trust; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups alternating with two-shots, formal framing

A man in a fez and light jacket speaks with a seated man in a suit across a desk in an office; the transcript reveals a negotiation about a reward and trust concerning someone named Pepe. A second man in a suit is visible in the background, and the speaker identifies himself as an informer.

“for Piero. Have you agreed? Agreed.” 26:05 · “And as to the price, you know the reward's been posted.” 26:05 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 25:45 (passage 25:39–26:10); US record: No renewal found

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