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Disorder in the Court · Beat 13 · permalink

Courtroom

2:55–3:14 Registered 1936

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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:582:58Frame at 3:073:07

Play from 2:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 26–27. 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
  • older man, bald, wearing a dark robe, seated behind a bench visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing, facing others visible
  • man in light suit, standing, arms crossed visible
  • man in dark suit, standing to the right of p3 visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p3 and p4 visible
  • several people seated in the background, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • The judge is seated at the bench, speaking into a microphone. [frame:1]
  • Several men stand near the witness box area while others watch from the gallery. [frame:2]
Also said
“Will you please step forward?” 3:02 · “No, no, no. Prepare yourself for the witness box.” 3:05
Seen
judge's bench [frame:1], microphone [frame:1], witness box area [frame:2], gallery seating [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal but tense; themes: authority, disorder, legal procedure; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged courtroom set

A judge speaks from the bench while several men stand near the witness box in a courtroom. The transcript includes the judge asking for quiet and someone responding that the gate is locked.

“Will you gentlemen please try to be a little more quiet in the court?” 2:55 · “Certainly, Judgey. The gate is locked.” 3:00 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 Disorder in the Court (1936) at 2:58 (passage 2:55–3:14); US record: No renewal found

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