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Disorder in the Court · Beat 41 · permalink

Courtroom

9:35–9:40 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 9:379:37

Play from 9:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 86–86. 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
  • wearing black leotard, gloves, and hat; thin build; performing a dance pose visible
  • seated audience members in suits and dresses; varied ages visible
Seen
railing [frame:1], black leotard [frame:1], gloves [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: absurd; themes: performance, disruption, formality vs. chaos; style notes: medium shot, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A person in a black leotard and gloves performs a dance move in front of a seated audience. The setting appears to be a courtroom with spectators behind a railing.

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 9:37 (passage 9:35–9:40); US record: No renewal found

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