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Disorder in the Court · Beat 49 · permalink

Courtroom

11:45–12:17 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:4911:49Frame at 11:5711:57Frame at 12:0412:04Frame at 12:1112:11

Play from 11:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 102–106. 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
  • man in light-colored suit, bow tie, holding revolver visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, gesturing visible
  • man in dark suit, lunging over railing visible
  • woman with dark hat, pearl necklace, seated visible
  • man in dark suit, leaning toward woman visible
  • man with mustache, seated in audience visible
  • man with white beard, seated in audience visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light suit holds a revolver while another man stands beside him. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit gestures while speaking to the court. [frame:2]
  • A man lunges over a railing toward seated spectators. [frame:3]
  • A man leans close to a seated woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“Broad Lane 9972.” 12:08 · “After five o'clock.” 12:13
Seen
revolver [frame:1], courtroom railing [frame:3], bow tie [frame:1], pearl necklace [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: legal drama, physical comedy, courtroom chaos; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged physical comedy

A man in a suit holds a revolver while another man speaks in a courtroom setting; the scene escalates as a man lunges over a railing toward the seated audience. A woman is later seen close to a man who leans toward her.

“How could Gale Tempest's frail little finger pull the rusty trigger of that instrument of destruction?” 11:55 · “See, there was nothing in it.” 12:01 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 11:49 (passage 11:45–12:17); US record: No renewal found

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