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Cavalry · Beat 187 · permalink

Private office

45:54–46:46 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; 1 name 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 46:2046:20

Play from 45:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 123 · shots 316–316. 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
  • balding man, wearing dark suit jacket, patterned vest, light trousers, dark tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The speaker stands in a room with wooden furniture and a hat on a table. [frame:1]
Also said
“We are at peace.” 46:13 · “far from the heels of the oppressor” 46:30
Seen
hat, wooden furniture, patterned vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and urgent; themes: self-determination, secession, fear of oppression, frontier politics; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing

A man in a suit and patterned vest stands indoors, speaking to an unseen audience about forming an independent country. He references peace with Indian tribes, the Union's focus on the South, and escaping oppressors.

“Friends and neighbors,” 46:00 · “when we must form a free and independent country of our own.” 46:04 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 46:20 (passage 45:54–46:46); US record: No renewal found

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