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Disorder in the Court · Beat 56 · permalink

Courtroom

12:36–12:57 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:4512:45Frame at 12:5612:56

Play from 12:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 113–114. 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 dark suit, curly hair, standing left visible
  • man in light jacket, dark hair, standing center-left visible
  • man in light suit, bow tie, standing center-right visible
  • man in dark suit, standing right, holding papers visible
  • group of men and one boy in jury box, some wearing hats visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the light suit gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
  • The jury box is shown with men and one boy seated. [frame:2]
Also said
“Yeah, huh, huh, huh, huh.” 12:46 · “Get going.” 12:48
Seen
wooden jury box [frame:2], microphone on stand [frame:1], papers held by man in dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and confrontational; themes: legal proceedings, disorder, witness testimony; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast studio lighting, staged blocking

Four men stand in a courtroom, speaking and gesturing; a separate shot shows a crowded jury box with men and one boy. The transcript includes lines about being a witness and disturbing the court.

“You was called to be a witness, wasn't you? Certainly. So was you. What are you butting in for?” 12:37 · “You're supposed to be a good one, ain't you? Well, ain't I? Now, what are you disturbing the court for?” 12:42 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 12:45 (passage 12:36–12:57); US record: No renewal found

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