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Disorder in the Court · Beat 4 · permalink

Courtroom

0:55–1:10 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:560:56Frame at 0:590:59Frame at 1:031:03Frame at 1:071:07

Play from 0:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 3 · shots 4–8. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit and patterned tie, mustache, pointing finger visible
  • woman seated, wearing dark dress with large white ruffled collar visible
  • elderly man with white hair, wearing black judicial robe, seated behind bench visible
  • man in dark suit with bow tie and badge on lapel, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands in the courtroom. [frame:4]
Also said
“It is merely an attempt to influence this intelligent,” 1:05 · “broad-minded and most intellectual jury.” 1:08
Seen
wooden bench, microphone, badge, ruffled collar
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: legal procedure, courtroom drama, witness interrogation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged courtroom setting

A courtroom scene unfolds with a man in a suit questioning a witness, a judge presiding, and a bailiff standing nearby. The transcript reveals a legal argument over a question about Kirk Robin, with a request to strike it from the record.

“Then who killed Kirk Robin? I don't know. Didn't you kill Kirk Robin? I abject, Your Honor.” 0:55 · “and ask that the last question be stricken from the records.” 1:02 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 0:56 (passage 0:55–1:10); US record: No renewal found

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