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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 176 · permalink

Bar

1:03:02–1:03:07 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 6 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 1:03:051:03:05

Play from 1:03:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 408–408. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt, leaning forward visible
  • woman seated, back to camera, light-colored hair visible
  • man standing behind p1, dark hair, light shirt visible
  • woman seated at table, profile visible, dark hair visible
  • man standing at right, light shirt, dark hair visible
  • person seated at table, head down, dark hair visible
Seen
wooden shelves with bottles and glassware [frame:1], candle on table [frame:1], tables and chairs [frame:1], wall-mounted lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or intimate; themes: social gathering, interpersonal tension; style notes: medium shot, low-key lighting, deep focus, period set design

A group of people are gathered in a dimly lit room with wooden paneling and shelves; one man leans over a seated woman while others stand or sit nearby. No dialogue is present in this beat.

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 1:03:05 (passage 1:03:02–1:03:07); US record: No renewal found

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