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1:24:05–1:24:49 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:24:271:24:27

Play from 1:24:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 146 · shots 568–568. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Jack (named at t:84:32): man wearing a long coat, standing near stairs, visible in profile visible, audible
  • Phelan (named at t:84:18): unseen, but addressed as Phelan audible, mentioned
  • Peggy (named at t:84:36): unseen, mentioned as Peggy mentioned
Seen happening
  • Jack stands in a hallway near stairs and a toilet door. [frame:1]
Also said
“Will you wait just a second, Phelan? I gotta tell Peggy something.” 84:36 · “He's booked a couple of fights for me back east. He's my manager.” 84:46
Seen
staircase, door with sign reading 'TOILET', wall-mounted light fixture, long coat worn by Jack
On screen
TOILET
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and weary; themes: fatigue, obligation, managerial control; style notes: black and white, static medium shot, high contrast lighting, minimal set design

A man speaks with someone named Phelan in a dimly lit hallway near stairs; he mentions needing to speak to Peggy and that his manager has booked fights for him. The scene is shot in black and white with a single visible person standing near a staircase and a door marked 'TOILET'.

“Oh, I'm tired.” 84:14 · “I'll be right with you, Phelan.” 84:18 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 1:24:27 (passage 1:24:05–1:24:49); US record: No renewal found

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