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Cavalry · Beat 165 · permalink

Private office

42:15–42:33 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:2442:24

Play from 42:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 283–283. 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
  • man in light shirt and wide-brimmed cowboy hat, seated at table visible, audible
  • older man with beard, wearing dark cowboy hat and vest, pointing finger visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a table in a wooden-walled room, one pointing at the other. [frame:1]
Also said
“Where is the meeting?” 42:24 · “Well, this little house outside the edge of town.” 42:26
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], wooden table [frame:1], wooden wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: gender roles, rebellion against social norms, rural community dynamics; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats sit at a table inside a rustic wooden structure; one speaks about attending a meeting outside town despite women's objections. The transcript reveals plans to locate and attend a meeting at a small house near the town's edge.

“Ladies don't want us to go to that meeting tonight.” 42:17 · “By golly, I got a good notion to go anyhow and tell him something.” 42:20 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 42:24 (passage 42:15–42:33); US record: No renewal found

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