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Disorder in the Court · Beat 68 · permalink

Courtroom

15:39–15:54 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; 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 15:4015:40Frame at 15:4215:42Frame at 15:4715:47Frame at 15:5215:52

Play from 15:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 151–155. 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, light-colored suit, short hair, medium build visible
  • man, dark uniform with badge, glasses, older visible
  • man, dark suit, curly hair, older visible
  • man, light-colored suit, dark hair, younger visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light suit holds a shotgun that emits a bright beam. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark uniform assists the man with the shotgun. [frame:3]
  • Two men stand side by side, one holding a small object, the other looking on. [frame:4]
Seen
shotgun [frame:1], bright beam from shotgun [frame:1], desk with papers [frame:1], two-globe lamp [frame:2], small object held by man [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and comedic; themes: absurdity, authority undermined, physical comedy; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, theatrical lighting

A man in a light suit holds a shotgun that fires a bright beam; another man in a dark uniform assists him with it. A third man in a suit and a fourth man with curly hair stand nearby, observing. The transcript includes shouted commands and a claim of possession.

“Whoa! Whoa! I'm... Shut that off! Wait a minute, I'll have to tell you nothing!” 15:39 · “Give me that. I... I got it. Got it?” 15:50 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 15:40 (passage 15:39–15:54); US record: No renewal found

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