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Disorder in the Court · Beat 43 · permalink

Private office

10:16–10:33 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 10:2010:20Frame at 10:2910:29

Play from 10:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 91–92. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • heavyset man, dark hair, wearing light suit and bow tie visible
  • Kirk Robin (named at t:10:18): man with bowl haircut, wearing striped suit and white shirt visible
  • Buck Wing (named at t:10:18): man with curly hair, wearing dark suit and striped tie visible
Seen happening
  • Buck Wing drags Kirk Robin toward a letterpress. [frame:2]
Mentioned
  • Kayleigh's dance ends. [t:10:16]
  • Narrator sees Kirk Robin and Buck Wing arguing in an office. [t:10:18]
Also said
“He grabs Kirk by the neck like that, see? And drags him over to the letterpress, see?” 10:28
Seen
letterpress [frame:2], parrot cage [t:10:23]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic tension; themes: conflict, physical comedy, office chaos; style notes: medium two-shot and three-shot, studio lighting, static camera, physical comedy staging

Two men argue in an office; one grabs the other by the neck and drags him toward a letterpress. A third man observes. The transcript mentions names Kirk Robin and Buck Wing and describes the argument.

“I stuck my head in the office door and I saw Kirk Robin and Buck Wing arguing.” 10:18 · “Oh, but the parrot cage. What were they arguing about? I don't know. But Buckwing was sizzling like a hot hamburger.” 10:23 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 10:20 (passage 10:16–10:33); US record: No renewal found

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