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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 257 · permalink

Theatre

1:21:55–1:21:58 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:21:561:21:56

Play from 1:21:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 142 · shots 552–552. 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
  • boxer in shorts and gloves, back to camera visible
  • boxer in shorts and gloves, facing p1 visible
  • referee in light shirt and dark pants, standing near ropes visible
  • audience members, silhouetted, seated around ring visible
Seen happening
  • Two boxers face each other in a ring with a referee nearby. [frame:1]
Seen
boxing ring with ropes [frame:1], boxing gloves [frame:1], referee's shirt and pants [frame:1], audience seating [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: sports, competition, public spectacle; style notes: medium shot from ringside, high contrast lighting focused on ring, audience in shadow

A boxing match is underway in a ring with spectators watching. Two boxers and a referee are visible inside the ring, with audience members seated around it.

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 1:21:56 (passage 1:21:55–1:21:58); US record: No renewal found

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