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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 30 · permalink

Bedroom

12:31–13:37 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:3312:33Frame at 12:3712:37Frame at 13:0813:08

Play from 12:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 11 · shots 63–65. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man lying in bed, wearing dark jacket and light shirt, appears to be asleep or unconscious visible
  • Goldie West (named at t:13:08): woman with dark hair and light dress, standing near bed, later seen in car visible, audible
  • Doc Wood (named at t:13:08): man wearing fedora and dark coat, standing near door, later driving car visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man lies in bed. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man stand in a room near the bed. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman are seated inside a car. [frame:3]
Also said
“Reporter killed in his apartment” 13:11 · “They're after us!” 13:35
Seen
bed [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:2], car interior [frame:3], car steering wheel [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: flight, fear, pursuit; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man lies in bed while a woman and another man stand nearby; later, the man and woman are seen inside a car. The transcript includes dialogue about being scared, crossing a border, and a wanted notice mentioning 'Doc Wood' and 'Goldie West'.

“Doc, I'm scared. I'm scared stiff.” 12:40 · “Possibly traveling with manager Doc Wood and his girl Goldie West.” 13:08 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 12:33 (passage 12:31–13:37); US record: No renewal found

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