Courtroom
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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:43:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 174 · shots 384–385. 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
- Mrs. Irene Williams (named at t:103:49): woman, mid-30s, fair skin, curly hair under a dark hat with veil, wearing dark coat and patterned scarf visible, audible
- man in judge’s robe, seated at high bench, back to camera visible
- man in suit, standing at podium, partially visible visible
- multiple spectators, mostly men in suits, seated in gallery visible
- Seen happening
- Mrs. Williams is shown seated in the gallery, looking forward. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Your Honor, we will call Mrs. Irene Williams.” 103:49 · “Take the stab, Mrs. Williams.” 103:55
- Seen
- judge’s bench [frame:1], American flag [frame:1], courtroom gallery seating [frame:1], dark hat with veil [frame:2], patterned scarf [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: justice, testimony, public scrutiny; style notes: static wide shot establishing courtroom authority, followed by tight close-up emphasizing witness’s reaction; high-contrast black-and-white lighting
A courtroom scene unfolds with a judge presiding and spectators seated. A woman identified as Mrs. Williams is called to testify, and she is shown in a close-up wearing a dark hat and veil.
“Be seated.” 103:42 · “This is the stage versus Walter Williams.” 103:43 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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