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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 130 · permalink

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44:10–44:14 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:1144:11Frame at 44:1344:13

Play from 44:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 298–299. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • unspecified, visible as a silhouette against a height chart visible
  • unspecified, visible as heads and shoulders in turbulent water visible
Seen happening
  • A silhouette is shown next to a height measurement chart. [frame:1]
  • Several people are visible in turbulent water. [frame:2]
Seen
height measurement chart, turbulent water
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ambiguous; themes: measurement, struggle, anonymity; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static shots, focus on physical detail (height chart, water texture)

Two frames show a height measurement chart and a group of people in turbulent water. No names, dialogue, or clear location context are provided in the frames or transcript for 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 44:11 (passage 44:10–44:14); US record: No renewal found

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