Courtroom
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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.
Play from 1:00:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 107 · shots 429–431. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- Matt Libby (named at t:60:47): man wearing a hat and coat, holding a telephone receiver to his ear visible, audible
- bald man with a mustache, wearing a dark robe, seated behind a bench visible
- Seen happening
- A judge is seated in a courtroom. [frame:2]
- The screen is dark with no discernible image. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Court recess! Don't wait!” 60:55
- Seen
- telephone receiver [frame:1], judge's bench [frame:2], lamp [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and dramatic; themes: media frenzy, legal proceedings, sudden announcement; style notes: medium close-up on phone caller, medium shot of judge, abrupt cut to black; studio lighting with high contrast
A man on the phone reports a marriage between Norman Maine and Vicki Lester to Johnny, while a judge is shown in a courtroom. The final frame is dark and indistinct.
“Johnny? This is Matt Libby. I got a flash for you.” 60:47 · “Norman Maine and Vicki Lester were married at 2:30 this afternoon. Vicki Lester?” 60:50 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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