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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 79 · permalink

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31:12–31:20 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; 4 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 31:1631:16

Play from 31:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 162–162. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark jacket and light shirt, standing with arms out visible
  • man in light shirt and pants, holding a plate visible
  • man in striped shirt, standing behind barrels visible
  • man in dark shirt, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a plate while standing with others near barrels and palm trees. [frame:1]
Seen
barrels [frame:1], plate [frame:1], palm trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual; themes: group interaction, outdoor gathering; style notes: medium shot, outdoor natural lighting, group composition

A group of men stand outdoors near barrels and palm trees; one holds a plate. A line of dialogue says to amuse the kids.

“Amuse the kids.” 31:12 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 31:16 (passage 31:12–31:20); US record: No renewal found

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