Courtroom
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:30:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 518–518. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in overcoat, standing, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
- man seated behind desk, wearing suit, mid-adult, average build visible
- man seated to right, wearing suit, mid-adult, average build visible
- Seen happening
- The man stands in a courtroom facing two seated men. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “We love her, Judge.” 91:05 · “She'll never go hungry, she'll never be without clothes, not as long as I've got two good hands that help me.” 91:25
- Seen
- wooden desk [frame:1], wood-paneled wall [frame:1], overcoat [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and pleading; themes: custody, parental love, desperation, legal appeal; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal courtroom setting
A man stands before a judge and another seated man in a courtroom, pleading to keep custody of a child. He speaks of his willingness to work and provide, emphasizing the child's attachment to him and his wife.
“Now here I am standing in front of a judge pleading for just a little longer so that I can prove to you I can support a little child that doesn't weigh quite 20 pounds.” 90:36 · “It's not only for my wife and me I'm asking you to let us keep her judges. It's for her sake, too.” 90:49 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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