Courtroom
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; 6 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.
Play from 1:33:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 159 · shots 635–638. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in dark suit, seated at desk, facing right, appears to be judge or official visible
- man in dark suit, standing behind desk, balding, older visible
- Norman Maine (named at t:94:12): man in dark suit, seated, disheveled, looking forward, appears intoxicated visible, audible
- woman with red hair, wearing patterned jacket, seated beside p3 visible
- man in dark suit, standing behind p3, holding his shoulder visible
- man in dark suit, standing at desk, facing p3 visible
- Seen happening
- A man is seated at a desk in a courtroom, facing another man. [frame:1]
- A man is being held by another man while seated in a courtroom. [frame:2]
- A woman and a man sit together, looking down at a document or object. [frame:3]
- A man stands at a desk facing a seated man in a courtroom. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “That car is a tree at Sunset and Coronado.” 94:00 · “You're Norman Maine the actor, aren't you?” 94:12
- Seen
- desk, microphone, green lamp, suit, patterned jacket
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: legal proceedings, public persona vs private behavior, consequences of intoxication; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, formal courtroom setting
A man is addressed in court as Norman Maine, an actor, while seated beside a woman; a judge and officers are present. The transcript mentions a suspended sentence, drunkenness, and a car accident at Sunset and Coronado.
“I suggest that you do.” 93:46 · “Sentence suspended.” 93:51 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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