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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 63 · permalink

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24:59–25:13 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:0625:06

Play from 24:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 123–123. 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, young adult, wearing a tank top, visible in profile visible, audible
  • Peggy (named at t:25:02): woman, young adult, wearing a patterned dress, standing near a door visible, audible
Seen
door, window, box or container on table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: identity, accusation, defensiveness; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing, black-and-white film

A man in a tank top speaks to a woman named Peggy in a dimly lit interior space; a whistle blows at 25:00. The setting appears to be a simple room with a door and window visible.

“WHISTLE BLOWS” 25:00 · “Hey, Peggy. Hey, Peggy, come here. What's the matter? Look, I'm not a tramp. I'm not a tramp.” 25:02 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 25:06 (passage 24:59–25:13); US record: No renewal found

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