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Cavalry · Beat 158 · permalink

Private office

39:39–40:21 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; 2 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 39:5339:53Frame at 40:1440:14

Play from 39:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 104 · shots 272–273. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing a dark military-style uniform with epaulets and buttons visible, audible
  • Horace Leeds (named at t:39:55): younger man, wearing a light-colored, long-sleeved shirt with a front lacing, dark curly hair visible, audible
Also said
“But I fought him merely a bag of wind.” 40:04 · “That wagon load of guns and ammunition intended for the Indians is hidden down by the river.” 40:09
Seen
desk [frame:1], inkwell [frame:1], papers [frame:1], uniform with epaulets [frame:1], laced shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: military hierarchy, espionage, conflict over arms; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing emphasizing dialogue

Two men are in a private office; one in uniform asks for a report, and the other identifies a man named Horace Leeds who is connected to hidden weapons intended for Indians. The uniformed man orders the location of the weapons to be given so men can retrieve them.

“Have you anything more to report, Captain?” 39:46 · “Horace Leeds.” 39:55 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 39:53 (passage 39:39–40:21); US record: No renewal found

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