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Cavalry · Beat 159 · permalink

Private office

40:21–40:40 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 40:2740:27Frame at 40:3540:35Frame at 40:3940:39

Play from 40:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 104 · shots 274–276. 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
  • older man, gray hair, wearing a dark military uniform with buttons and epaulets visible, audible
  • younger man, dark curly hair, wearing a light-colored button-up shirt visible, audible
Also said
“Do you think a wagon load of supplies would help keep them neutral?” 40:33 · “That's an excellent idea.” 40:39
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], button-up shirt [frame:2], wooden wall paneling [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and strategic; themes: diplomacy, resource scarcity, military strategy; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting emphasizing facial expressions

Two men discuss the unrest of local Indians due to crop failure and game depletion, and consider sending supplies to maintain neutrality. One man, in a military uniform, agrees the idea is excellent.

“The Indians are restless.” 40:24 · “Their crops failed this year,” 40:28 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 40:27 (passage 40:21–40:40); US record: No renewal found

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