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Disorder in the Court · Beat 64 · permalink

Courtroom

14:44–14:46 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:4514:45

Play from 14:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 137–137. 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, light-colored bow tie, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man in dark robe, seated, older, visible only from chest up visible
Seen
birdcage, judge's bench, dark suit, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or comedic, given the man's exaggerated gesture and the presence of a birdcage in a courtroom; themes: legal absurdity, physical comedy; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A man in a dark suit gestures toward a birdcage in a courtroom setting. 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 14:45 (passage 14:44–14:46); US record: No renewal found

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