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Cavalry · Beat 161 · permalink

Field

40:56–41:20 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:0341:03Frame at 41:1541:15

Play from 40:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 278–279. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Native American man, wearing a large feathered headdress and fringed garment visible
  • white man, wearing a cowboy hat, light shirt, and dark pants visible, audible
  • man in background, shirtless, wearing a sash or belt visible
  • man in background, wearing a vest and pants visible
  • man partially visible behind p2, wearing a hat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat speaks to a Native American man in a feathered headdress. [frame:1]
  • The cowboy hat man gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“The bad white men.” 41:10 · “but they speak with forked tongue.” 41:14
Seen
feathered headdress [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], fringed garment [frame:1], sash or belt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and diplomatic; themes: colonial negotiation, cultural encounter, broken promises; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes, static framing

A man in a cowboy hat speaks with a Native American man wearing a feathered headdress, while others stand nearby. The dialogue references promises of food and guns to Native Americans and accuses some white men of deceit.

“The great white father sends his red brothers much food.” 40:57 · “He wants the Indians to live safely.” 41:04 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 41:03 (passage 40:56–41:20); US record: No renewal found

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