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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 10 · permalink

Boxing ring

1:34–2:59 Registered 1939

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; 5 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 1:381:38Frame at 1:531:53Frame at 2:102:10Frame at 2:382:38

Play from 1:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 13–16. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
boxing_ring (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Johnny (named at t:1:36): young male boxer, shirtless, towel around neck, wet hair, smiling visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, smiling, standing beside boxer visible, audible
  • Mr. Ennis (named at t:2:31): man in light suit and fedora, seated, smoking, speaking to another man visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing, facing p3 visible
  • policeman in uniform, visible behind p1 and p2 visible
Seen happening
  • People gather around Johnny in the ring after his fight. [frame:1]
  • Johnny is embraced by a man in a suit while police and others look on. [frame:2]
  • Johnny speaks into a microphone, addressing the public. [frame:3]
  • Mr. Ennis is spoken to in a hallway by another man. [frame:4]
Also said
“Great fight, Johnny. You're a world champion. Congratulations, Doc.” 2:23 · “Got a surprise for you, champ. What's this, my birthday or something?” 2:40
Seen
boxing ring ropes, microphone, fedora hats, suit and tie, police uniform, watch
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: triumphant and sentimental; themes: victory, family, redemption, public vs private; style notes: close-ups on faces, high-contrast lighting, medium shots in crowd scenes, static camera in hallway

A boxer named Johnny is celebrated after a fight, speaks into a microphone, and later receives his stolen watch back. The scene shifts to a private conversation in a hallway where a man in a suit is addressed as Mr. Ennis.

“Where's Johnny? Where is Johnny? Huh? Stop it. All right. You all right? Hey, boys, a little room.” 1:36 · “Are you listening, Mom? I won, Mom, and there isn't a mark on me.” 1:52 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 They Made Me a Criminal (1939) at 1:38 (passage 1:34–2:59); US record: No renewal found

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