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Disorder in the Court · Beat 53 · permalink

Private office

12:26–12:31 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 12:2912:29

Play from 12:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 110–110. 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
  • man with curly hair, wearing dark suit, seated at desk with typewriter visible
  • man wearing dark hat and coat, being restrained visible
  • man in light suit, restraining p2 visible
  • man in dark suit, standing and watching visible
Seen happening
  • Two men restrain a third man while a fourth watches from the side. [frame:1]
Seen
typewriter [frame:1], desk [frame:1], window blinds [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, restraint, authority; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing

Four men are in a room; one is restrained by two others while a fourth watches. 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 12:29 (passage 12:26–12:31); US record: No renewal found

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