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Cavalry · Beat 196 · permalink

Private office

48:48–49:01 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:5148:51Frame at 48:5448:54Frame at 48:5648:56Frame at 48:5948:59

Play from 48:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 129 · shots 333–336. 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:4
People
  • older man, graying hair, wearing a dark military uniform with epaulets and buttons visible, audible
  • younger man, dark curly hair, wearing a light-colored shirt with front lacing visible, audible
  • person wearing a hat, seated at a desk in the background, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • The younger man is seen seated at a desk, looking toward the right, while another person works at a desk in the background. [frame:4]
Also said
“And we know he won't get that.” 48:52 · “I'll warn the telegraph crew to be ready for an attack if you will captain” 48:55
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], laced shirt [frame:2], desk [frame:4], telegraph equipment [frame:4], hat [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and strategic; themes: military command, preparation for conflict, interpersonal authority; style notes: medium close-ups alternating with wider shots; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; static camera framing typical of 1930s studio productions

Two men in period military and civilian attire converse in an interior room; one gives orders about preparing a telegraph crew for a possible attack. A third person is visible in the background working at a desk.

“Is there any danger of his succeeding?” 48:49 · “Not without Indian aid.” 48:51 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 48:51 (passage 48:48–49:01); US record: No renewal found

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