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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 166 · permalink

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59:08–59:27 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:1059:10Frame at 59:1659:16Frame at 59:2459:24Frame at 59:2759:27

Play from 59:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 379–382. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with dark hair, wearing a patterned shirt, visible in frame:2 and frame:3 visible
  • man wearing a military-style cap and uniform, visible in frame:2 and frame:3 visible
  • man with curly hair, wearing a light shirt, visible in frame:3 visible
  • hand holding cards, likely belonging to one of the seated men visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds a fan of cards showing 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 of spades. [frame:1]
  • Two men sit at a table; one in uniform looks at cards while the other leans in. [frame:2]
  • Three men are seated at a table playing cards; one deals cards. [frame:3]
  • A hand holds a fan of cards showing 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 of diamonds. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, Dippy, four cards for Douglas, Jr.?” 59:18 · “Give me three.” 59:24
Seen
playing cards [frame:1], military-style cap [frame:2], wooden table [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and focused; themes: card game, social interaction under pressure; style notes: close-up shots of hands and cards, medium shots of players at table, high-contrast black-and-white lighting

A hand displays a sequence of playing cards during a card game; three men are seated at a table, one in uniform, discussing their hands. No names are spoken that identify the individuals, and the setting is not clearly established beyond being indoors.

“I got six, seven, eight, nine and ten. Isn't that any good?” 59:09 · “No.” 59:12 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 59:10 (passage 59:08–59:27); US record: No renewal found

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