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Disorder in the Court · Beat 40 · permalink

Courtroom

9:30–9:35 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 9:339:33

Play from 9:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 85–85. 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
  • woman, wearing a dark halter-neck dress and a small dark hat, fair-skinned, mid-20s to 30s visible
  • man, older, balding, wearing a suit and tie, seated visible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a suit and tie, seated, smiling visible
  • man, older, wearing a suit and tie, seated, partially visible visible
Seen
railing [frame:1], suit [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, staged; themes: legal setting, public spectacle; style notes: medium shot, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, theatrical framing

A woman in a dark dress and hat stands at a railing with men seated behind her. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 9:33 (passage 9:30–9:35); US record: No renewal found

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