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Cavalry · Beat 132 · permalink

Private office

34:59–35:23 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1135:11

Play from 34:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 87 · shots 235–235. 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:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, medium build, 30s-40s visible
  • man in plaid shirt, vest, cowboy hat, medium build, 30s-40s visible
  • older man, balding, wearing patterned vest and tie, heavier build visible, audible
Also said
“we'll give them a royal welcome” 35:11 · “We'll soon find out who is for or against us.” 35:14
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], vests [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], patterned vest and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and strategic; themes: power struggle, deception, frontier justice; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s Westerns

Three men in Western attire stand indoors, discussing strategy about wagon trains and suspicion. One man speaks about giving a 'royal welcome' to determine allies and enemies.

“But too many killings might arouse suspicion.” 35:01 · “We cannot afford that until we're more strongly entrenched.” 35:04 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 35:11 (passage 34:59–35:23); US record: No renewal found

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