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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 216 · permalink

Theatre

1:15:18–1:15:41 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:15:201:15:20Frame at 1:15:261:15:26Frame at 1:15:361:15:36Frame at 1:15:391:15:39

Play from 1:15:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 478–482. 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
  • man in fedora and suit, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • boxer, shirtless under striped robe, young, athletic visible
  • man in dark shirt, mid-40s, balding, standing near ring visible
  • man in suspenders, older, balding, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora looks toward the ring. [frame:1]
  • A boxer in a striped robe leans forward near the ring while another man stands beside him. [frame:2]
  • The boxer speaks to the man in the dark shirt while another man watches from behind. [frame:3]
  • The man in the fedora covers his mouth with his hand while watching. [frame:4]
Also said
“Know him?” 75:34 · “Uh, never seen him before in my life.” 75:34
Seen
fedora, striped robe, boxing ring ropes, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and watchful; themes: identity, suspicion, public spectacle; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing focused on character reactions

A man in a fedora watches from the crowd as a boxer in a striped robe speaks with another man near a ring; a voice calls out to 'Johnny' and asks if he knows the man.

“Hey, Johnny.” 75:20 · “Hey, there's a guy down there calling you, kid.” 75:27 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 1:15:20 (passage 1:15:18–1:15:41); US record: No renewal found

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