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Cavalry · Beat 11 · permalink

Field

2:19–2:50 Registered 1936

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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:212:21Frame at 2:282:28Frame at 2:362:36Frame at 2:452:45

Play from 2:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 14–17. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing, medium build visible
  • Betty Lee (named at t:2:36): woman in plaid dress, mid-20s, dark hair visible, audible
  • Uncle Lath (named at t:2:21): man in military uniform and hat, older, mustache visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform holds a woman while another man stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks upward with a shocked expression. [frame:2]
  • The uniformed man looks down solemnly while holding the woman. [frame:3]
  • The uniformed man continues to hold the woman, his expression unchanged. [frame:4]
Also said
“Leading his men, Betty Lee.” 2:36 · “to find his body.” 2:44
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], hat with badge [frame:3], plaid dress [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and tense; themes: grief, military loss, family reaction; style notes: medium and close shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A man in uniform comforts a woman outdoors while another man stands nearby; the transcript reveals news of a death during a military action. The woman reacts with shock, and the uniformed man appears somber.

“Uncle Lath.” 2:21 · “dead.” 2:30 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 2:21 (passage 2:19–2:50); US record: No renewal found

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