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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 13 · permalink

Private office

4:28–4:54 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; 4 names 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 4:344:34Frame at 4:474:47

Play from 4:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 26–27. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Donnie (named at t:4:39): man in robe, smiling, surrounded by others visible, audible
  • man in fedora and suit, visible in background visible
  • man in patterned robe, partially visible visible
  • woman mentioned in dialogue mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a robe is surrounded by reporters and photographers. [frame:1]
Also said
“Poor old gray-haired mother.” 4:51 · “Yeah, Miss, for the million things she gave me... You think that's funny, don't you? Lay off Johnny's can. Oh, don't get sore. I didn't mean anything. Okay.” 4:53
Seen
robe [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1], camera equipment [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but celebratory; themes: media attention, post-fight aftermath, public persona vs private moment; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, crowded framing

A man in a robe is surrounded by reporters and photographers after a fight; he speaks to someone named Donnie and mentions news reporters waiting outside. A woman is mentioned as a 'poor old gray-haired mother' in the dialogue.

“Hello, Donnie. You're a great part, boy. Thanks a lot. I've got to be running away now. There's a gang of news” 4:39 · “waiting outside for a feed I promised him after the fight so there's a grand guy wins the championship and the first thing he thinks about is the newsies” 4:43 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 4:34 (passage 4:28–4:54); US record: No renewal found

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