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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 120 · permalink

Pool

42:36–42:37 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 42:3742:37

Play from 42:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 275–275. 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
  • person in water, partially visible, dark hair, no clear clothing details due to water and motion visible
Seen happening
  • A person splashes in water near a vertical depth marker. [frame:1]
Seen
depth marker, water
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic; themes: struggle, confinement; style notes: high-contrast black and white, tight framing on action, motion blur from splashing water

A person is visible in water, creating splashes, with a vertical scale marked in feet visible on the wall. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 42:37 (passage 42:36–42:37); US record: No renewal found

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