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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 94 · permalink

Outdoor boxing ring

35:05–35:38 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1135:11Frame at 35:1835:18Frame at 35:2835:28Frame at 35:3535:35

Play from 35:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 200–204. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor boxing ring (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, wearing a hat, standing near ring visible, audible
  • shirtless man in dark shorts, boxing visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, boxing visible
  • man sitting on edge of platform, watching visible
  • man standing behind platform, wearing light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are boxing on a raised platform surrounded by palm trees. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat stands near the ring, watching the boxers. [frame:2]
  • One boxer throws a punch while the other ducks. [frame:3]
  • The man in the hat gestures toward the boxers as they continue fighting. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hey, what's the matter with you? Ah, look out. Come on, Tommy. Keep that lift out, my boy.” 35:18 · “Oh, not the strength. One guy gets knocked down. Come on. Bow! Bow! Bow! Bow! What do I do?” 35:30
Seen
boxing ring, palm trees, ladder, boxing gloves, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and energetic; themes: physical competition, coaching and encouragement, outdoor sports; style notes: outdoor natural lighting, medium shots focused on action, high contrast black and white

Two men are boxing on a raised platform outdoors, surrounded by spectators and palm trees. A man in a hat and shirt acts as a referee or coach, shouting encouragement and instructions during the match.

“Come on, Fox. Come on.” 35:07 · “Frank it up. Frank it up.” 35:16 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 35:11 (passage 35:05–35:38); US record: No renewal found

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