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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 222 · permalink

Theatre

1:17:09–1:17:32 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; 9 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:17:121:17:12Frame at 1:17:161:17:16Frame at 1:17:261:17:26Frame at 1:17:311:17:31

Play from 1:17:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 497–501. 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
  • boxer in shorts, shirtless, visible in ring visible
  • man in fedora and striped shirt, holding camera, seated at ringside visible
  • man in suit and hat, seated in audience, looking serious visible
  • man in light-colored fedora, laughing, seated in audience visible
  • woman with blonde hair, seated in audience, expression neutral visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near ring, possibly referee visible
  • unspecified crowd members in hats and suits visible
  • Jackie (named at t:77:19): unspecified person speaking audible
  • Jack (named at t:77:29): unspecified person speaking audible
Seen happening
  • A boxer is knocked down in the ring. [frame:1]
  • A man with a camera watches the match intently. [frame:2]
  • Spectators in the crowd show varied reactions to the fight. [frame:3]
  • A man in a fedora laughs while watching the fight. [frame:4]
Also said
“It goes down. On your feet, Jackie, my boy. On your feet.” 77:19 · “Jack, get up! Please get up, Jack!” 77:29
Seen
boxing ring [frame:1], camera [frame:2], fedora hats [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], suits and ties [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: sportsmanship, spectatorship, resilience; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting emphasizing faces and action

A boxing match is underway in a ring with spectators watching; one fighter is down and being urged to rise. The crowd's reactions vary from concern to amusement as the fight continues.

“He lands a terrific right to Dornies draw.” 77:14 · “comes through with the left of the jaw, and another hard bite with the heart.” 77:16 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 1:17:12 (passage 1:17:09–1:17:32); US record: No renewal found

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