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Cavalry · Beat 131 · permalink

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34:36–34:59 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:3934:39Frame at 34:5134:51

Play from 34:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 233–234. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, plaid shirt, and dark scarf; middle-aged, medium build visible
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark vest over a shirt; visible in frame 2 visible
  • man wearing a dark suit jacket and patterned vest; balding, heavier build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a plaid shirt and hat gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
  • Three men stand together in conversation, with one appearing to speak emphatically. [frame:2]
Also said
“He must be removed.” 34:46 · “I did not want that wagon train to come.” 34:50
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, plaid shirt, dark scarf, dark vest, patterned vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: suspicion, threat, group decision-making, frontier conflict; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up framing, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions and gestures

Three men in Western attire are shown in an interior setting, discussing a perceived threat from a man who joined a wagon train. One man insists the man must be removed, while another expresses regret about the wagon train's arrival.

“They were brought by a man who joined the wagon train yesterday.” 34:37 · “I'm sure he's a spy.” 34:41 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 34:39 (passage 34:36–34:59); US record: No renewal found

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