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Disorder in the Court · Beat 58 · permalink

Courtroom

13:05–13:15 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 13:0713:07Frame at 13:1213:12

Play from 13:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 116–117. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing a dark robe, seated in a high-backed chair visible
  • man with short dark hair, wearing a light-colored suit and bow tie, gesturing with both hands visible
Seen happening
  • An older man in a robe sits in a high-backed chair, looking to his right. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit gestures with both hands while speaking. [frame:2]
Seen
high-backed chair [frame:1], suit and bow tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal with a hint of comedic tension; themes: authority, compliance, courtroom procedure; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged for dialogue

A man in a robe sits in a high-backed chair while another man in a suit gestures with his hands. The transcript includes a command to stop chewing gum and an affirmative reply.

“Stop chewing that gum.” 13:06 · “Certainly!” 13:09 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 13:07 (passage 13:05–13:15); US record: No renewal found

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