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Disorder in the Court · Beat 39 · permalink

Courtroom

9:16–9:30 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 9:199:19Frame at 9:269:26

Play from 9:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 24 · shots 83–84. 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 light suit, bow tie, holding a double bass visible
  • man in striped suit, wearing a cap visible
Also said
“Proceed.” 9:22
Seen
judge's robe, double bass, bow tie, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and absurd; themes: authority, chaos in formal settings, absurdity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, theatrical framing

A judge in a courtroom orders the parties to control themselves and proceed with testimony. Two men, one holding a double bass, stand before him.

“Gentlemen, you must control your killing instinct.” 9:17 · “Proceed to the testimony please.” 9:20 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 9:19 (passage 9:16–9:30); US record: No renewal found

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