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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 253 · permalink

Theatre

1:21:25–1:21:50 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:21:351:21:35Frame at 1:21:471:21:47

Play from 1:21:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 138 · shots 547–548. 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
  • bald man in suspenders and tie, standing visible
  • man in fedora and white shirt, leaning over boxer visible
  • shirtless boxer with dark curly hair, seated visible
  • man in sweater, holding bottle, leaning over boxer visible
  • audible speaker, voice sounds male, possibly older audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora leans over a seated boxer while another man in suspenders stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • A man in a sweater holds a bottle near the boxer's shoulder. [frame:2]
Also said
“Still need some more. Go on, scrap, scrap. Wait, Jack, you're off.” 81:40 · “I'm sorry.” 81:48
Seen
boxing ring ropes [frame:1], bottle [frame:2], fedora hat [frame:1], suspenders [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: sportsmanship, pressure, team dynamics; style notes: tight framing on characters in a dimly lit arena; high contrast lighting emphasizes faces and action

A boxer is attended to in a ring between rounds while a man speaks to him; another man holds a bottle. The transcript includes encouragement and tactical comments during the fight.

“Good boy, Jack. You did it. Go on, kid. Bring it.” 81:30 · “We got the dough now. You can quit. I can't.” 81:35 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 1:21:35 (passage 1:21:25–1:21:50); US record: No renewal found

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