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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 105 · permalink

Outdoor water area

40:30–40:36 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:3340:33

Play from 40:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 248–248. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor water area (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • partially visible in water, dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A person is in water with splashes around them. [frame:1]
Seen
water [frame:1], trees [frame:1], hills [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or chaotic; themes: struggle, outdoor peril; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor shot with natural lighting, medium shot showing action in water

A person is visible in water, surrounded by splashes, with trees and hills in the background. No names, time of day, or period are established from the frame or transcript.

“What's the...” 40:33 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 40:33 (passage 40:30–40:36); US record: No renewal found

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