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Cavalry · Beat 191 · permalink

Private office

47:24–47:41 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 47:2747:27Frame at 47:3147:31Frame at 47:3747:37

Play from 47:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 126 · shots 321–323. 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 in dark suit and bow tie, middle-aged, heavy-set visible, audible
  • man with dark curly hair, wearing light shirt with front lacing, younger, lean build visible, audible
Also said
“He's a spy.” 47:37 · “Sent by the Yankies to upset and ruin our plans.” 47:38
Seen
{'item': 'dark suit with bow tie', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'light shirt with front lacing', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'wooden chair back visible in background', 'frame': 3}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: accusation, loyalty, espionage; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing emphasizing dialogue

Two men are in a tense verbal confrontation in an interior setting; one accuses the other of being a spy sent by the Yankies. The dialogue suggests a conflict over proof and trust, with one man defiant and the other accusing.

“I defy you to prove that.” 47:26 · “Because you know I can't prove it.” 47:29 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 47:27 (passage 47:24–47:41); US record: No renewal found

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