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1:15:07–1:15:14 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:15:101:15:10

Play from 1:15:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 112 · shots 476–476. 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 in light shirt, being held or restrained by others, mid-30s, average build visible
  • man in vest and cap, holding p1, mid-30s, average build visible
  • older man with bald head and tie, looking up, 50s, average build visible
  • man in hat, looking up, 30s, average build visible
  • man in background, smiling, 20s-30s, average build visible
Seen
cap [frame:1], vest [frame:1], tie [frame:1], crowd [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, crowd dynamics; style notes: tight framing on a chaotic crowd, high contrast lighting, black and white film stock

A crowd of men in a dimly lit interior space is shown in a single frame; one man is being held or restrained by others while others look on. No spoken dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 1:15:10 (passage 1:15:07–1:15:14); US record: No renewal found

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