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; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 27:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 82 · shots 241–245. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man in dark suit and patterned tie, mid-30s, medium build, seated at table visible
- older man with glasses, balding, in dark suit and tie, seated at bench visible
- man in light shirt and vest, older, seated in audience visible
- woman in patterned dress, seated in audience visible
- man in light shirt, young, seated in audience visible
- man in dark suit, older, seated at table, hand to chin visible
- Jackson (named at t:27:16): man in light shirt, seated at table, speaking visible, audible
- man in dark suit, seated at bench, presiding visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit speaks at a table while another listens. [frame:1]
- A judge presides over a courtroom with audience seated. [frame:2]
- An older man in a suit rests his chin on his hand, appearing contemplative. [frame:3]
- Audience members look forward, some with concerned expressions. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Testimony given is irrelevant and immaterial. Overruled.” 27:20 · “Mr. Whelan's dam has cut off the entire water side of the valley.” 27:25
- Seen
- microphone, legal documents, wood-paneled walls, judge's bench, audience chairs, inkwell, glasses, patterned tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: justice, resource conflict, community survival; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal courtroom framing
A courtroom scene unfolds where testimony about water rights and a dam's impact is given; a judge overrules an objection and the proceedings continue. The audience and participants are seated in a wood-paneled room with legal documents and microphones visible.
“Proceed.” 27:11 · “Robert Whalen is depriving us of the means of livelihood upon which our existence here depends.” 27:12 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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