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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 76 · permalink

Field

30:02–30:08 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 30:0530:05

Play from 30:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 155–155. 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
  • person wearing striped shirt and dark pants, sitting on a ladder, mouth open as if speaking or surprised visible
Seen happening
  • Person sits on a ladder outdoors near palm trees. [frame:1]
Seen
ladder [frame:1], palm trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or questioning; themes: confrontation, departure, outdoor setting; style notes: low-angle shot, black and white, outdoor natural setting with palm trees

A person sits on a ladder outdoors near palm trees as someone asks where they are going. The scene is shot in black and white with low-angle framing.

“Hey, where you going?” 30:04 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 30:05 (passage 30:02–30:08); US record: No renewal found

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