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Disorder in the Court · Beat 63 · permalink

Courtroom

14:06–14:44 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0814:08Frame at 14:2014:20Frame at 14:2914:29Frame at 14:4214:42

Play from 14:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 130–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in pinstripe suit, dark hair, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in light suit, bow tie, larger build, mid-adult visible
  • man in dark suit, holding parrot, mid-adult visible
  • man in dark suit, seated in background, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A parrot flies through the courtroom, causing disruption. [frame:2]
  • A man holds the parrot while others react. [frame:3]
  • A man in a bow tie reacts dramatically while another man holds his ear. [frame:4]
Also said
“Ouch! Look down, here it comes. Take that, Barry. Take him, take him. Take him. Take him. Wow! It's a kill for you. Hey. Oh, my Stradivarius. Oh, my beautiful Stradivarius. Grab your ear.” 14:17 · “Come on.” 14:41
Seen
parrot [frame:2], note tied to parrot's foot [t:14:08], Stradivarius violin [t:14:17], courtroom furniture [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: courtroom farce, animal disruption, slapstick; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, studio lighting, physical comedy emphasized

A man in a suit reacts as a parrot flies through a courtroom, causing chaos. Another man is seen holding the parrot while a third man reacts with distress, mentioning a Stradivarius violin.

“Look! There's a note tied to the parrot's foot.” 14:08 · “Come on, Polly Polly Polly Polly. Come on, Polly Polly Polly.” 14:11 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 14:08 (passage 14:06–14:44); US record: No renewal found

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