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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 233 · permalink

Theatre

1:18:51–1:19:10 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:18:511:18:51Frame at 1:18:541:18:54Frame at 1:19:011:19:01Frame at 1:19:081:19:08

Play from 1:18:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 122 · shots 518–521. 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, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • older woman in dark hat and coat, glasses, seated visible
  • man in light-colored fedora, seated, hand to mouth visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, seated, looking left visible
  • man in dark hat, seated, holding something to mouth visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora reacts with alarm as someone is knocked down in a boxing match. [frame:2]
  • The crowd is shown reacting with tension and surprise. [frame:3]
  • The crowd continues to watch intently as the fighter gets up. [frame:4]
Also said
“Didn't I hear someone say she's framed up for the good?” 79:00 · “He's up!” 79:07
Seen
fedora hats, microphone, glasses, dark coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: sports drama, crowd reaction, boxing match; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups on spectators, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A crowd watches a boxing match; a man in a fedora reacts to a fighter being knocked down and then rising. The transcript includes shouted encouragement and a comment about someone being framed.

“Here he goes. Dorney's down from a terrific right to the jaw.” 78:54 · “Get up, Jack!” 78:57 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 1:18:51 (passage 1:18:51–1:19:10); US record: No renewal found

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