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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 26 · permalink

Private office

10:07–10:44 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:0910:09Frame at 10:1310:13Frame at 10:2910:29

Play from 10:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 56–58. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and patterned tie, middle-aged, average build visible, audible
  • woman with curly blonde hair, wearing a dark sequined dress visible, audible
  • man in vest and tie, unconscious, being carried visible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman stand facing each other in a room. [frame:1]
  • The man turns away from the woman. [frame:2]
  • The woman and another man carry an unconscious man between them. [frame:3]
Also said
“Come on, let's blow. - We can't, John. He's out cold. - We got him. Get the ramps.” 10:17 · “Come on, help me get him out of here. Where are we going? Up to Mackey's. There's nobody there.” 10:24
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], patterned tie [frame:1], sequined dress [frame:1], vest [frame:3], unconscious man [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: crime, conspiracy, escape; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

Two people carry an unconscious man through an interior space while discussing their next move. They mention going to 'Mackey's' and grabbing hats and coats, indicating a plan to leave the scene.

“Nothing. He's dead.” 10:08 · “What did you do with that for? She had it coming to her.” 10:14 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 10:09 (passage 10:07–10:44); US record: No renewal found

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