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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 65 · permalink

Field

25:35–25:55 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 25:4525:45

Play from 25:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 128–128. 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
  • man in sleeveless shirt, dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman with blonde hair, light-colored dress visible
  • man in light shirt and dark hat, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand near crates outdoors, one gesturing. [frame:1]
Also said
“I suppose you have a limousine parked down the road. Suppose I told you I did have a limousine.” 25:53
Seen
crates, ladder, baskets
On screen
Imperial Date Co.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted, conversational; themes: social class, deception, rural labor; style notes: medium shot, outdoor natural lighting, static framing, period costume

Three people stand near stacked crates outdoors; one man gestures while speaking to a woman and another man. The transcript includes dialogue about picking dates, getting a handout, and joking about being an oil man with a limousine.

“I wonder if there's a chance to get... Yes, there's a big chance. There's a ladder back there and some baskets and some dates.” 25:38 · “And after you pick three basketfuls, you get a handout. Well, I'm no trap. Ha, ha. I know. You're a big oil man, and you came all the way down here to study about anticlines.” 25:43 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 25:45 (passage 25:35–25:55); US record: No renewal found

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