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Disorder in the Court · Beat 47 · permalink

Courtroom

10:59–11:01 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:0011:00

Play from 10:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 99–99. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man raises his right hand to his forehead. [frame:1]
Seen
suit jacket [frame:1], tie [frame:1], wooden bench or railing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or exasperated; themes: legal drama, personal distress; style notes: medium shot, black and white, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a suit is visible in a medium shot, raising his hand to his forehead. 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 11:00 (passage 10:59–11:01); US record: No renewal found

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