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Cavalry · Beat 138 · permalink

Sidewalk

36:54–37:14 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:5736:57Frame at 37:0237:02Frame at 37:0737:07Frame at 37:1237:12

Play from 36:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 90 · shots 248–251. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair in braids, wearing a light dress with puffed sleeves, holding a hat visible, audible
  • man, wearing a light shirt, cowboy hat, and belt with a holster visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman and man stand facing each other near a wagon. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks with an open mouth, looking up at the man. [frame:2]
  • The man looks down at the woman with a skeptical expression. [frame:3]
  • The woman looks at the man with a serious expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“I can't tell you just yet.” 37:02 · “You didn't understand once before.” 37:09
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], wagon [frame:1], holster [frame:1], light dress with puffed sleeves [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, warning, past experience; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man and a woman converse outdoors near a wagon; she urges him to delay a land purchase involving a specific man, citing past experience. The man appears skeptical while listening.

“I hope your uncle isn't in a hurry to buy land.” 36:57 · “Especially from that man.” 36:59 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 36:57 (passage 36:54–37:14); US record: No renewal found

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