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Cavalry · Beat 129 · permalink

Private office

32:27–33:53 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; 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 32:3732:37Frame at 33:1933:19

Play from 32:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 230–231. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Mr. Rams (named at t:33:17): man in dark suit, standing, addressing group visible, audible
  • man in plaid shirt and cowboy hat, seated visible
  • man in dark coat, seated, facing speaker visible
  • man in light shirt and vest, standing near doorway visible
Seen happening
  • Men are gathered in a wooden room, listening to a speaker. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands and speaks to seated men in a wooden room. [frame:2]
Also said
“Right here at Sageville.” 33:26 · “The telegraph line must be destroyed.” 33:37
Seen
wooden chairs, wooden walls and door, cowboy hat, plaid shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: conspiracy, secession, telegraph as threat, frontier politics; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, wooden interior suggests frontier setting

A group of men in a wooden interior discuss destroying a telegraph line to protect their plan for an independent republic. One man reports the telegraph is destined for Sageville, prompting concern and a decision to wait before acting.

“I tell you, the time is right.” 32:47 · “An independent republic.” 32:51 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 32:37 (passage 32:27–33:53); US record: No renewal found

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