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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 17 · permalink

Bedroom

6:36–6:41 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names 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 6:386:38

Play from 6:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 34–34. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a dark top, leaning forward visible
  • man lying on back, wearing light-colored shirt, eyes closed visible
Seen happening
  • A woman leans over a man lying on a bed. [frame:1]
Seen
bed [frame:1], doorway or mirror frame [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, vulnerability; style notes: low-key lighting, framed through a doorway or mirror, medium shot

A woman leans over a man lying on a bed in a dimly lit room. The scene is viewed through a doorway or mirror frame, with no dialogue or on-screen text visible.

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 6:38 (passage 6:36–6:41); US record: No renewal found

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