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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 207 · permalink

Private office

1:12:15–1:12:43 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; 4 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 1:12:251:12:25Frame at 1:12:361:12:36Frame at 1:12:401:12:40

Play from 1:12:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 107 · shots 462–464. 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:1
People
  • man in striped robe, dark hair, holding boxing gloves visible
  • man in striped robe, light hair, facing p1 visible
  • man in dark shirt, visible in doorway visible
  • man in light shirt, standing to right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a striped robe holds boxing gloves while others stand around him. [frame:1]
  • The man in the striped robe speaks to another man in a striped robe. [frame:2]
  • The man in the striped robe faces another man in a striped robe, both holding gloves. [frame:3]
Also said
“Come on, Lynch. We're gonna need you up there.” 72:25 · “- Damn. - I'll box his ears off you.” 72:39
Seen
boxing gloves [frame:1], wooden door [frame:1], poster on wall [frame:3], striped robe [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: pressure to perform, confrontation, boxing; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, confined space

A man in a striped robe and boxing gloves is urged to hurry by others in a room with wooden walls and a poster; dialogue suggests he is being pressured to fight and that someone is afraid of him. No names are spoken that can be assigned to visible individuals.

“All set. They're ready. 12. Oh, not you, Gary. Change his mind. Come on, Colucci. Hurry up. They're waiting on you.” 72:17 · “Yeah, John, he's trying to get my goat.” 72:22 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 1:12:25 (passage 1:12:15–1:12:43); US record: No renewal found

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