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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 244 · permalink

Boxing ring

1:20:48–1:20:50 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:20:491:20:49

Play from 1:20:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 538–538. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
boxing_ring (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boxer in light trunks, visible from back visible
  • boxer in dark trunks, facing p1 visible
  • referee in light shirt and dark pants, standing near ring visible
  • spectators in suits and hats, seated around ring visible
Seen
boxing ring with ropes [frame:1], boxing gloves [frame:1], referee's shirt and pants [frame:1], spectator hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: sports, competition; style notes: medium shot, black and white, studio lighting, centered on ring

Two boxers are fighting in a ring with a referee and spectators visible. The scene is shot in black and white with studio lighting and no on-screen text.

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 1:20:49 (passage 1:20:48–1:20:50); US record: No renewal found

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