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1:22:17–1:23:17 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:22:181:22:18Frame at 1:22:481:22:48Frame at 1:23:121:23:12Frame at 1:23:171:23:17

Play from 1:22:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 145 · shots 557–563. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Jack (named at t:82:17): man lying on ground, shirtless, appears injured or unconscious visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing a coat, kneeling beside Jack visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and fedora, smoking, later speaking visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing, appears to be a doctor visible, audible
  • group of men and boys in hats, watching from background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora is seen smoking. [frame:3]
Also said
“It's all right, dear. We got the money.” 83:11 · “Oh, my head.” 83:14
Seen
fedora hat [frame:3], cigarette smoke [frame:3], wooden door [frame:2], counter with bottles [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: concern for a fallen comrade, emotional urgency, suspense over recovery; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, dramatic lighting with shadows, focused on character reactions

A man named Jack is lying on the ground, unconscious or injured, while others plead for him to wake up and a doctor assesses his condition. A man in a fedora is present, smoking and later speaking, while a woman and others react emotionally to Jack's state.

“Get up, Jack! Get up! Please get up!” 82:17 · “Well, he took a pretty bad beating, but he'll come out of it all right.” 82:41 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 1:22:18 (passage 1:22:17–1:23:17); US record: No renewal found

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