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Cavalry · Beat 136 · permalink

Town square

35:54–36:22 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 35:5935:59Frame at 36:0536:05Frame at 36:1036:10Frame at 36:1736:17

Play from 35:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 90 · shots 239–242. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Lee (named at t:36:05): man in dark suit and hat, medium build, adult visible, audible
  • Colonel Holbrook (named at t:36:05): man in cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana, mustache, adult visible, audible
  • young woman with braided hair, light dress, adult visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, standing near wagon, adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit tips his hat to Colonel Holbrook. [frame:3]
  • A man stands near a wagon and horses. [frame:4]
Also said
“Mr. Lee's the gentleman I was telling you about, Colonel.” 36:08 · “Artium of the Old South.” 36:13
Seen
horse-drawn wagon, cowboy hats, plaid shirt, bandana, church steeple
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and polite; themes: social introduction, Western frontier, class distinction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor Western setting with natural lighting

A man in a suit is introduced to Colonel Holbrook and his niece in an outdoor Western setting with wagons and horses. The dialogue references a trip across the plains and the Paris Balls in the West.

“You have come to the Paris Balls in the West.” 35:54 · “Let me present Colonel Holbrook and his niece.” 36:05 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 35:59 (passage 35:54–36:22); US record: No renewal found

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