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1:16:59–1:17:09 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:17:021:17:02Frame at 1:17:071:17:07

Play from 1:16:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 495–496. 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 fedora, striped shirt, tie, medium build, 30s-40s visible
  • man in foreground, smoking cigarette, wearing vest and tie, medium build visible
  • woman in dark hat and coat, older, seated in crowd visible
  • man in background, wearing suit and tie, hand to mouth visible
  • man in background, wearing hat, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora leans over a table with a camera, looking toward the crowd. [frame:1]
  • The crowd watches intently; one man smokes, another covers his mouth. [frame:2]
Also said
“I may get a problem.” 77:04 · “You send Stoney's head back?” 77:08
Seen
camera [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], cigarette [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, anticipatory; themes: chase, violence, spectacle; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, crowd framing suggests spectator event

A man in a fedora leans over a table with a camera, while a crowd watches; dialogue suggests a chase or fight involving someone named Jack and a 'gorilla'. No named characters are confirmed by speech in this beat.

“That gorilla do that to you Jack” 76:59 · “- Get him back! Get him back!” 77:02 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 1:17:02 (passage 1:16:59–1:17:09); US record: No renewal found

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