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Cavalry · Beat 130 · permalink

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33:53–34:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names 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 34:1434:14

Play from 33:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 86 · shots 232–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in hat and coat, standing center, gesturing visible, audible
  • man in hat, standing left, facing p1 visible
  • man in hat, standing right, facing p1 visible
  • man in hat, partially visible back right visible
  • man in hat, standing behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man addresses a group, sending them out as missionaries and warning them to be cautious. [frame:1]
Also said
“Was the Indian attack successful?” 34:23 · “But the cavalry was warned and it saved the wagon train.” 34:31
Seen
wooden chairs and table [frame:1], hats worn by all men [frame:1], wooden wall paneling [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: secrecy, mission, military conflict, trust; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, period costumes, group composition suggests hierarchy

A group of men in a dim interior discuss a failed Indian attack and the cavalry's warning that saved a wagon train. One man is sent out as a missionary for their cause, cautioned to reveal little until trust is established.

“I'm sending you out into the field as missionaries” 33:54 · “in not revealing too much of your plans to others,” 34:02 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 34:14 (passage 33:53–34:36); US record: No renewal found

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