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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 147 · permalink

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51:19–51:25 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:2251:22

Play from 51:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 330–330. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
Seen
sign [frame:1]
On screen
SAT. SEPT. 25TH. 8 P.M. $500. A ROUND WILL BE PAID TO ANY OPPONENT WHO STAYS OVER TWO ROUNDS! MEETING ALLCOMERS "GAS"
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static close-up of a sign, high-contrast black and white, no camera movement

A sign announces a $500 prize for a boxing match on Saturday, September 25th at 8 P.M. The sign also states that a round will be paid to any opponent who stays over two rounds. No people or actions are visible in the frame.

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 51:22 (passage 51:19–51:25); US record: No renewal found

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