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Cavalry · Beat 173 · permalink

Bar

43:12–43:43 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:1943:19Frame at 43:2943:29Frame at 43:3843:38

Play from 43:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 294–296. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in plaid shirt, dark vest, cowboy hat, standing visible
  • man in light shirt, cowboy hat, seated then standing visible
  • group of men in cowboy hats, seated at tables visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a plaid shirt stands facing a seated man in a light shirt. [frame:1]
  • A group of men in cowboy hats sit at tables in a wooden bar, watching the confrontation. [frame:2]
  • The two men stand face to face, close together, in a tense posture. [frame:3]
Also said
“You mean me?” 43:39 · “You lie.” 43:41
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], wooden bar interior [frame:2], tables and chairs [frame:2], chandelier [frame:2], gun belt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: loyalty and betrayal, frontier justice, group versus individual; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting emphasizing faces and wooden textures

Two men in cowboy hats confront each other in a wooden interior while a larger group watches; one man accuses the other of being a Yankee spy who collaborates with Indians. The transcript includes a toast to a new republic and a denial of the accusation.

“Here's to our new republic.” 43:22 · “And the end to all Yankee spies.” 43:24 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 43:19 (passage 43:12–43:43); US record: No renewal found

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