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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 58 · permalink

Bar

23:07–23:31 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:1523:15Frame at 23:2223:22Frame at 23:2723:27

Play from 23:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 112–114. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in fedora and jacket, standing at bar visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, back to camera at bar visible
  • man in fedora and light shirt, facing p1 visible
  • man in fedora, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand at a bar counter. [frame:1]
  • A foot in a shoe is near a bill on the floor. [frame:2]
  • Two men face each other in argument, one in a dark suit, one in a light shirt. [frame:3]
Seen
bar counter, bottles on shelves, foot in shoe near bill, fedora hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, possession, confrontation; style notes: medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white, static framing

Three men in hats are at a bar; one accuses another of stepping on his money. A close-up shows a foot near currency on the floor, and the men argue face-to-face.

“Hey, you got your foot on my money. That's why you're wrong, buddy. Hey.” 23:20 · “That's my money, not your money. Hey, wait. Take it, Aiden, Bill. Shut up.” 23:26 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 23:15 (passage 23:07–23:31); US record: No renewal found

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