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Disorder in the Court · Beat 19 · permalink

Courtroom

6:06–6:31 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:086:08Frame at 6:206:20Frame at 6:316:31

Play from 6:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 48–50. 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, balding, wearing judge's robe visible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, standing visible
  • Mr. Howard (named at t:6:10): man in light suit and bowler hat, seated at witness stand visible, audible
  • Cora (named at t:6:25): unseen, voice heard audible
Seen happening
  • The judge is seated at the bench. [frame:1]
  • The witness stands at the witness stand with a man in a suit beside him. [frame:2]
  • The judge is shown again, seated at the bench. [frame:3]
Also said
“Kindly tell the court what you know about the murder of Kirk Robin.” 6:11 · “Allow the witness to proceed. The court understands him. Thanks, Cora. You're a pal.” 6:25
Seen
judge's bench [frame:1], witness stand [frame:2], microphone [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal with comedic undertones; themes: legal procedure, miscommunication, authority; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged courtroom set

A courtroom scene where a witness is prompted to address the judge properly before giving testimony about a murder. The judge is seated at the bench, and two men stand at the witness stand.

“Request granted.” 6:06 · “Mr. Howard.” 6:10 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 6:08 (passage 6:06–6:31); US record: No renewal found

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