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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 75 · permalink

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29:36–30:02 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 29:4929:49

Play from 29:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 154–154. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • seen from behind, wearing a light-colored garment, partially obscured by a wooden door frame visible
Seen happening
  • A person is visible from behind, standing near a wooden door frame in a dimly lit space. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden door frame [frame:1], light-colored garment [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: confinement, urgency; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing, black-and-white film

A person is seen from behind, partially obscured by a wooden door frame, in what appears to be a dimly lit interior space. The only spoken line in this beat is 'Come on.'

“Come on.” 29:37 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 29:49 (passage 29:36–30:02); US record: No renewal found

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