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1:13:48–1:14:28 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; 3 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 1:14:081:14:08

Play from 1:13:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 108 · shots 468–468. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing suspenders and a light shirt, seen from behind, medium build visible
  • Dorney (named at t:73:59): unspecified, only audible audible
  • Smith (named at t:74:08): unspecified, only audible audible
Seen happening
  • A man in suspenders is seen from behind, seated or leaning forward. [frame:1]
Also said
“Right to the jaw, a left to the face. Boy, is he a killer. Is he murderous? The bull lands a terrific right to Smith's jaw, and Smith is down. But you better for Smith if he stays down, because this is downright murder. Smith's face is red pulp. Red, red pulp. Eight.” 74:08 · “10! And Smith's out. Am I glad that's over.” 74:23
Seen
handbag [t:73:50], suspenders [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: boxing, violence, sports commentary; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting on the man in suspenders

A boxing match is described in the transcript, with one fighter knocked out after a right to the jaw; a man in suspenders is visible in a single frame. No names are spoken that can be assigned to visible people.

“Still trying to get my goat, huh? All set, kid.” 73:48 · “Yeah, well, no, I've only got one handbag. Okay, we'll take the other one in the ring. Come on.” 73:50 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 1:14:08 (passage 1:13:48–1:14:28); US record: No renewal found

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