Public Reel

They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 133 · permalink

Farm

44:42–45:12 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:5244:52Frame at 45:0745:07

Play from 44:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 305–306. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman in striped dress with white collar, holding pistol visible
  • person standing behind p1, partially visible visible
  • person climbing ladder on silo, wearing light-colored hat visible
  • Peg (named at t:44:45): unseen speaker audible
  • Grandma (named at t:44:53): unseen speaker audible
  • Tommy (named at t:45:01): unseen speaker audible
  • Angel (named at t:45:01): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a pistol indoors while another person stands behind her. [frame:1]
  • A person climbs a ladder on a silo outdoors. [frame:2]
Also said
“What? I can't. Come on.” 44:59 · “Here we go. Now, Tommy and Angel...” 45:01
Seen
pistol, silo, ladder
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: search, concern for missing persons, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium and long shots, high contrast lighting

A woman in a striped dress holds a pistol indoors while another person stands behind her; a separate shot shows a person climbing a ladder on a silo outdoors. The transcript mentions searching for missing people and a truck, and references characters named Peg, Grandma, Tommy, and Angel.

“Oh, Peg, we've been looking all over the place. We can't find those guys. Yeah, and we was all the way down the road, too.” 44:45 · “Grandma, they couldn't have taken the truck to town. Oh, well, don't worry, Peggy. Maybe the truck broke down. They're all right.” 44:53 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from They Made Me a Criminal (1939) at 44:52 (passage 44:42–45:12); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/They_Made_Me_A_Criminal_1939/b133.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite