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Cavalry · Beat 103 · permalink

Desert

27:49–28:17 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:5527:55Frame at 28:0428:04Frame at 28:1028:10Frame at 28:1528:15

Play from 27:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 176–179. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in hat and shirt, visible near wagon visible
  • person in hat and coat, visible near wagon visible
  • group of mounted riders, distant visible
  • person shouting, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A large group of mounted riders approaches through dust. [frame:3]
  • People near wagons move quickly, reacting to the approaching riders. [frame:4]
Seen
covered wagons [frame:2, frame:4], horses [frame:3], dust cloud [frame:3], mountains [frame:1, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, migration, warning; style notes: wide shots, dusty outdoor lighting, static camera capturing movement across frame

A group of people near covered wagons reacts to an approaching mounted force in a desert landscape. One person shouts a warning about 'India' being 'a common folk' and tells others to get out of sight.

“Hey!” 28:01 · “India is a common folk! Get out of sight, quick! India is a common folk!” 28:07 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 Cavalry (1936) at 27:55 (passage 27:49–28:17); US record: No renewal found

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