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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 259 · permalink

Boxing ring

1:21:59–1:22:08 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 1:22:041:22:04

Play from 1:21:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 554–554. 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
  • boxer in light-colored trunks and gloves, mid-fight stance visible
  • boxer in dark trunks and gloves, mid-fight stance visible
  • referee in light shirt and dark pants, standing between boxers visible
  • audience members in silhouette, seated around ring visible
Seen
boxing ring 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, spectacle; style notes: static wide shot, high-contrast lighting with silhouetted foreground, typical of 1930s studio boxing scenes

A boxing match is underway in a ring surrounded by spectators. The scene is shot from a fixed camera angle showing the ring and audience in silhouette.

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 1:22:04 (passage 1:21:59–1:22:08); US record: No renewal found

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