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Disorder in the Court · Beat 3 · permalink

Courtroom

0:41–0:55 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:470:47Frame at 0:540:54

Play from 0:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 2–3. 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, balding, standing visible
  • Gail Tempest (named at t:0:44): woman with dark hair in a hat and large white ruffled collar, seated visible, audible
Also said
“On the night of February the 13th, were you working at the Black Bottom Cafe when this murder was committed? Yes.” 0:48 · “But I didn't do it.” 0:54
Seen
wooden podium or bench, woman's hat with bow, woman's large white ruffled collar
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: legal interrogation, innocence claimed, courtroom drama; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical framing

A woman named Gail Tempest, identified as a dancer, is questioned in a courtroom about her presence at the Black Bottom Cafe on February 13th. She denies involvement in a murder that occurred there.

“Gail Tempest.” 0:44 · “I'm a dancer.” 0:47 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 0:47 (passage 0:41–0:55); US record: No renewal found

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