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Disorder in the Court · Beat 65 · permalink

Courtroom

14:46–15:06 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; 3 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 14:4814:48Frame at 14:5014:50Frame at 14:5914:59

Play from 14:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 138–140. 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 light jacket, medium build, dark hair, mid-30s visible, audible
  • man in striped jacket, thin build, dark hair, mid-30s visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, balding, mid-40s visible
Seen happening
  • p1 grabs p2 by the shoulder [frame:1]
  • a parrot is perched on a wall sconce [frame:2]
  • p1 gestures aggressively while p3 watches [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, don't do nothing till you hear from me.” 14:57 · “Wait a minute, hold it. What do you mean? I object, Your Honor. Please proceed this courtroom. What's the idea? Give me that hole.” 15:03
Seen
parrot [frame:2], wall sconce with two globes [frame:2], wood-paneled wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and absurd; themes: legal farce, absurdity, physical comedy; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, theatrical blocking

Two men are in a courtroom; one grabs the other while a parrot perches on a wall sconce. A third man in a suit observes as the first man demands a 'hole' and objects to proceedings.

“Find my letter!” 14:49 · “Find the letter! How do we get him now? Let's get some salt and put it on his tail. That's no way to get a parrot. You've got to wet his feathers so he can't fly.” 14:50 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 14:48 (passage 14:46–15:06); US record: No renewal found

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