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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 67 · permalink

Kitchen

26:40–27:06 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; 5 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 26:4526:45Frame at 26:5126:51Frame at 26:5926:59

Play from 26:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 130–132. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • elderly woman, wearing apron, standing in kitchen visible
  • man lying on floor, dark clothing visible
  • woman with dark hair, leaning over man visible
  • man in sleeveless shirt, kneeling beside man on floor visible
  • elderly woman, bending over man on floor visible
Seen happening
  • An elderly woman in an apron reacts with alarm in a kitchen. [frame:1]
  • Several people gather around a man lying on the floor. [frame:2]
  • The screen goes dark. [frame:3]
Also said
“Amen.” 26:47 · “Oh! Oh! Here, here, what's the matter? He's beat us. Well, come on, get him out of here. We don't want him. Now look out, he's staggering in the middle. Come on.” 26:47
Seen
apron, kitchen counter, metal bowls, stacked boxes, man lying on floor, woman leaning over man, man in sleeveless shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and chaotic; themes: distress, intervention, family emergency; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, abrupt cut to black

An elderly woman reacts to a man lying on the floor while others gather around him; the scene ends in darkness. No names are spoken that identify the individuals.

“Grandma!” 26:40 · “Grandma Efferty! Quick! Now, now what's the matter?” 26:41 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 26:45 (passage 26:40–27:06); US record: No renewal found

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