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Cavalry · Beat 116 · permalink

Battlefield

29:51–29:54 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name 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.

Frame at 29:5329:53

Play from 29:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 208–208. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • figures in 18th-19th century military or civilian attire, some wearing hats, seen from behind or in profile visible
Seen happening
  • Figures are clustered in a chaotic outdoor scene with smoke or dust rising. [frame:1]
Seen
hats [frame:1], smoke or dust cloud [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic, tense; themes: conflict, historical action; style notes: low-angle shot, high contrast black-and-white, wide framing to show group action

A chaotic outdoor scene shows figures in period clothing amidst smoke or dust, suggesting a battle or skirmish. No names, dialogue, or clear time of day are visible.

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 29:53 (passage 29:51–29:54); US record: No renewal found

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