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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 208 · permalink

Private office

1:12:43–1:13:31 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:13:071:13:07

Play from 1:12:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 107 · shots 465–465. 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
  • older man, thinning hair, wearing a robe, standing visible, audible
  • man seen from back, wearing striped robe, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a robe stands and speaks to a seated man in a striped robe. [frame:1]
Also said
“He's afraid of boxing.” 73:03 · “Unless you take them first.” 73:25
Seen
robe [frame:1], striped robe [frame:1], shelf with bottles [frame:1], fire extinguisher [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: debt, boxing, male camaraderie, reluctance to act; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

Two men are in a room; one is seated and wearing a striped robe, the other stands in a robe and speaks to him. The dialogue references a hospital bill, a boxer named Colucci, and boxing strategy.

“Come on, sit down, will you? Relax. What's the matter? You worried about the wife?” 72:44 · “I'll stay in there till I get that hospital bill paid, or I'll...” 72:48 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 1:13:07 (passage 1:12:43–1:13:31); US record: No renewal found

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