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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 172 · permalink

Private office

1:01:15–1:01:38 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:171:01:17Frame at 1:01:281:01:28

Play from 1:01:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 396–397. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing fedora, dark suit, and tie, smoking visible, audible
  • man with light hair, wearing suit, looking up at p1 visible
Seen happening
  • p1 smokes while speaking [frame:1]
  • p1 confronts p2 in a hallway [frame:2]
Also said
“Let me tell you something. If I get in that ring first, you'll never get a whack at that guy.” 61:27 · “Hey, wait a minute. What are you fighting for?” 61:27
Seen
fedora hat, cigarette, sign: 'WHILE TRAINING ONLY ALLOWED', wall-mounted light fixture
On screen
WHILE TRAINING ONLY ALLOWED
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: boxing, motivation, conflict; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting, static camera shots

A man in a fedora speaks while smoking, then confronts another man in a hallway; the dialogue suggests a boxing context and a discussion about motives for fighting. The setting includes a sign indicating 'WHILE TRAINING ONLY ALLOWED'.

“- You're by all right, huh? - Yeah.” 61:20 · “Doctor said I was 100% okay. I hit the scale of 153.” 61:24 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 1:01:17 (passage 1:01:15–1:01:38); US record: No renewal found

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