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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 264 · permalink

Private office

1:23:28–1:23:45 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 1:23:371:23:37

Play from 1:23:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 145 · shots 565–565. 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 lying shirtless on a bed, appears young, medium build visible
  • Jack (named at t:83:36): man standing, wearing light shirt and dark hat, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing jacket, standing visible
  • man standing behind p3, wearing dark hat and coat visible
  • man standing to left, wearing dark hat and coat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat leans over a shirtless man lying on a bed while others stand around watching. [frame:1]
Seen
bed, hat, jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but relieved; themes: recovery, camaraderie, boxing or fighting context; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A group of people surrounds a man lying on a bed in an interior space; one person speaks to him while others look on. The transcript includes dialogue addressing someone named Jack and referencing a 'gorilla'.

“Yeah, so I says, who's got a better ride in there but his brother's?” 83:34 · “How you feeling, Jack? I feel fine. Yeah, what did I tell you? Just a little wind of that sort. Give him another chance with that gorilla and he'd take him, wouldn't you?” 83:36 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 1:23:37 (passage 1:23:28–1:23:45); US record: No renewal found

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