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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 28:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 86 · shots 256–257. 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 wearing a sheriff's star on his shirt, dark jacket, medium build visible
- bald man, wearing a striped shirt, medium build visible, audible
- man in suit, seated at a bench, likely a judge visible
- man in light shirt, seated at table, likely a witness visible
- multiple spectators, mostly men, seated in rows visible
- Seen happening
- A man with a sheriff's star confronts a bald man in a wooden room. [frame:1]
- The scene cuts to a courtroom with a judge, a witness, and spectators. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Okay, look, mister, please, I got troubles. I don't know nothing from court.” 28:47 · “All I know, I got to see Miss Shurrie. And when I want to see somebody, I see somebody.” 28:47
- Seen
- sheriff's star, wooden wall panels, courtroom bench, witness table, spectator chairs
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict between individual will and legal authority, rural justice setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s Westerns
Two men argue in a wooden room; one wears a sheriff's star. The scene cuts to a courtroom with a judge, a witness, and spectators. A man insists he must see 'Miss Shurrie' despite being told it is a court of law.
“Hey, hey, where are you going? You mean you told me I can't see my boss?” 28:47 · “Not just now, it's the court of law.” 28:47 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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