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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 60 · permalink

Field

24:00–24:35 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:0524:05Frame at 24:1124:11Frame at 24:2324:23

Play from 24:00 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 30 · shots 118–120. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult, wearing dark coat and hat, visible from behind and then falling visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks along a wooden structure in a barren, fenced landscape. [frame:1]
  • The person falls backward against a brick wall. [frame:2]
  • The person's feet are shown on dusty ground. [frame:3]
Seen
wooden structure [frame:1], fence [frame:1], brick wall [frame:2], dusty ground [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: isolation, fall, desolation; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium and close-up shots, static framing

A person walks along a wooden structure in a barren landscape, then is shown falling backward against a brick wall, followed by a close-up of their feet on dusty ground. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 24:05 (passage 24:00–24:35); US record: No renewal found

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