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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 73 · permalink

Bedroom

28:43–29:10 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:4528:45Frame at 28:4928:49Frame at 28:5828:58Frame at 29:0729:07

Play from 28:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 147–150. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • young man, dark hair, lying in bed, wearing light-colored shirt visible, audible
  • older woman, light-colored hair, wearing patterned dress or robe visible
  • Sheriff (named at t:28:45): man wearing hat and coat, likely sheriff visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The sheriff and an older woman enter a room where a young man is in bed. [frame:1]
  • The sheriff and the older woman stand beside the bed, looking at the young man. [frame:3]
Also said
“Texas, I've been cutting down there” 28:58 · “No, no, no. My folks are back in Texas now.” 29:04
Seen
bed [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], door with curtain [frame:1], hat [frame:1, frame:3], coat [frame:1, frame:3], shelf with items [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: authority, vulnerability, migration for work; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s cinema, static camera

A man in bed speaks with a sheriff and an older woman in a room; the man says he is from Texas and is looking for work. The setting appears to be a private room with a bed and simple furnishings.

“Here we are. Again. Hello, Sheriff. How's it been?” 28:45 · “So this is the young fella that passed out on you, huh? Uh, Sheriff, this is the boy, all right. Where you from, boy?” 28:51 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 28:45 (passage 28:43–29:10); US record: No renewal found

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