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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 117 · permalink

Pool

42:12–42:28 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:1342:13Frame at 42:1542:15Frame at 42:2242:22Frame at 42:2842:28

Play from 42:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 268–271. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
pool (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • visible in water, dark hair, wearing swimwear visible
  • visible in water, dark hair, wearing swimwear visible
  • visible in water, dark hair, wearing swimwear visible
  • visible in water, dark hair, wearing swimwear visible
Seen happening
  • A person is splashing in water near a height marker. [frame:1]
  • A person raises an arm in the water while another looks on. [frame:2]
  • Multiple people are in the water, interacting and splashing. [frame:3]
  • People continue to move and splash in the water. [frame:4]
Also said
“Look, I'm gonna go down and lift you by anchors and lift you way up to the top and you'll grab hold. Ready, will ya? Okay, let's go. Ready?” 42:21
Seen
height marker [frame:1], water [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: playful; themes: play, group interaction, physical activity; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, dynamic movement in water

A group of people are in a pool, with one person speaking about lifting another up. The scene includes splashing water and a height marker on the wall.

“Good.” 42:16 · “It's a comic man. I'll be your own angel.” 42:19 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 42:13 (passage 42:12–42:28); US record: No renewal found

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