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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 250 · permalink

Boxing ring

1:21:07–1:21:14 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 1:21:111:21:11

Play from 1:21:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 544–544. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
boxing ring (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in boxing shorts, mid-frame, facing away visible
  • man in boxing shorts, mid-frame, facing p1 visible
  • referee in dark suit and cap, standing between boxers visible
  • spectators in audience, some wearing hats visible
Seen
{'item': 'boxing ring ropes', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': "referee's cap", 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'audience seating', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'banners above ring', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: sports, competition, public spectacle; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A boxing match is underway in a ring with a referee and spectators visible. The scene is shot from a medium distance, showing the ring and part of the audience.

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 1:21:11 (passage 1:21:07–1:21:14); US record: No renewal found

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