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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 189 · permalink

Living room

1:05:39–1:06:09 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:411:05:41Frame at 1:05:511:05:51Frame at 1:06:041:06:04

Play from 1:05:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 98 · shots 430–432. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Jack (named at t:65:50): man, dark hair, wearing a suit jacket over a collared shirt visible, audible
  • woman, blonde hair styled in waves, wearing a light-colored patterned dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man looks at the woman and speaks. [frame:1]
  • The man drinks from a bottle while the woman turns away. [frame:2]
  • The woman stands beside a chair labeled 'THE CHAMP'. [frame:3]
Also said
“Good night.” 66:03 · “I'm going to go.” 66:05
Seen
bottle [frame:2], chair with sign reading 'THE CHAMP' [frame:3], curtained window [frame:2], framed picture on wall [frame:2], bookshelf with dishes [frame:3]
On screen
THE CHAMP
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and unresolved; themes: conflict, departure, personal struggle; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing emphasizing character emotion

A man and a woman are in a room; the man speaks and drinks while the woman stands near a chair labeled 'THE CHAMP'. The woman says she is leaving, and the man is told to leave her alone.

“Leave me alone, can't you?” 65:39 · “Jack.” 65:50 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 1:05:41 (passage 1:05:39–1:06:09); US record: No renewal found

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