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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 148 · permalink

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51:25–51:37 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:2651:26Frame at 51:2951:29Frame at 51:3451:34

Play from 51:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 331–333. 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 in short-sleeved shirt, standing near a boxing bell, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man wearing a fedora and collared shirt, looking upward, mid-adult, average build visible
Also said
“Well, he must be pretty good if they're gonna give $500. Anybody can stick with him.” 51:31 · “That's a lot of money.” 51:35
Seen
boxing ring bell [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:2], collared shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and skeptical; themes: sports gambling, doubt about talent, money as motivator; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on characters, high contrast black-and-white

Two men discuss a boxer's skill and a $500 prize while one stands near a boxing ring bell. The setting appears to be a dimly lit indoor space with boxing-related equipment.

“Hey, you gonna take that in? I hear he's good.” 51:25 · “If he were any good, he wouldn't be barnstorming in the sticks.” 51:28 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 51:26 (passage 51:25–51:37); US record: No renewal found

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