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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 114 · permalink

Wooden tank

41:39–41:43 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 41:4141:41

Play from 41:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 257–257. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
wooden tank (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • multiple indistinct figures in water, no clear age or clothing visible visible
Seen happening
  • Several people splash in a large wooden tank. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden tank [frame:1], water [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic; themes: confinement, struggle; style notes: high-angle shot, black and white, stark contrast between water and wood

A group of people are splashing in a large circular wooden tank. The scene is shot from above, showing only the tank and its immediate surroundings.

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 41:41 (passage 41:39–41:43); US record: No renewal found

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