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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 2 · permalink

Theatre

0:50–1:02 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:540:54Frame at 0:590:59Frame at 1:011:01

Play from 0:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boxer in light shorts, visible in ring visible
  • boxer in dark shorts, visible in ring visible
  • man in crowd, mouth open, visible in frame 2 visible
  • boxer, head tilted back, visible in frame 3 visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Two boxers stand in a ring surrounded by a crowd. [frame:1]
  • A man in the crowd reacts with an open mouth. [frame:2]
  • A boxer is shown in close-up with his head tilted back, appearing dazed. [frame:3]
Seen
boxing ring [frame:1], boxing gloves [frame:1], crowd [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: sports, competition, spectacle; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting on the ring

Two boxers are in a ring with a crowd watching; one boxer is shown in close-up after being struck. A voice says "Oh, yeah" at 1:00.

“Oh, yeah.” 1:00 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 0:54 (passage 0:50–1:02); US record: No renewal found

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