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1:27:34–1:31:12 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; 2 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 1:29:231:29:23

Play from 1:27:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 149 · shots 579–579. 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
  • man in a light-colored jacket, open collar, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Doherty (named at t:89:50): man in a dark suit, tie, fedora hat, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
Also said
“if you hadn't laid yourself white open for a dame and them kids, I'd never have found you.” 89:02 · “So long, Doherty!” 89:50
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1], light jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational, somber; themes: moral consequence, male camaraderie under pressure, sacrifice for others; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men stand facing each other in a dimly lit interior, speaking. One man, wearing a suit and hat, appears to be leaving while the other, in a lighter jacket, confronts him about past actions and a woman.

“You gotta go back and get that...” 87:37 · “That's a swell-looking dame, me leaving behind, kid. I feel kind of sorry for her.” 88:43 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 1:29:23 (passage 1:27:34–1:31:12); US record: No renewal found

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