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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 232 · permalink

Theatre

1:18:36–1:18:51 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 1:18:401:18:40Frame at 1:18:481:18:48

Play from 1:18:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 122 · shots 516–517. 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 striped shirt, medium build, appears mid-30s visible
  • boxer in ring, wearing shorts, visible from back and side visible
  • Dorney (named at t:78:44): boxer in ring, wearing shorts, visible from front visible
  • unseen commentator audible
Seen happening
  • Two boxers are fighting in a ring while spectators watch. [frame:1]
  • A man in a fedora and striped shirt watches the fight intently. [frame:2]
Also said
“Let's Dorney over his feet with a terrific right uprocut.” 78:49
Seen
boxing ring [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:2], striped shirt [frame:2], microphone [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and focused; themes: sports, spectatorship, combat; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots of ring and close-up of spectator, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s cinema

Two men are boxing in a ring while spectators watch; a man in a fedora and striped shirt is visible in the crowd. A commentator describes the fight, mentioning a boxer named Dorney being hit with a right uppercut.

“No. Get him!” 78:37 · “There comes the bull again. He's got Dorney back into a corner. Rips lefts and rights to the body.” 78:44 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 1:18:40 (passage 1:18:36–1:18:51); US record: No renewal found

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