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51:03–51:19 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 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 51:1151:11

Play from 51:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 329–329. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a suit, light-colored shirt, and dark hat, medium build, appears young adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands looking up at a poster on a wall. [frame:1]
Seen
boxing poster [frame:1], door [frame:1], hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
On screen
WILD BULL OF EUROPE GASPAR RUTCHEK TOURING U.S.A. Taking on ALL Comers Here Soon
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: publicity, economic comment, urban setting; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, typical of 1930s studio production, focused on character reaction to signage

A man in a suit and hat looks at a boxing poster on a wall. The poster advertises a tour by 'Gaspar Rutche' and includes the phrase 'Taking on ALL Comers Here Soon'.

“30 cents, that's too much.” 51:03 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 51:11 (passage 51:03–51:19); US record: No renewal found

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