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Cavalry · Beat 203 · permalink

Private office

51:32–51:52 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; 3 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 51:3751:37Frame at 51:4451:44Frame at 51:4951:49

Play from 51:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 132 · shots 347–349. 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
  • Uncle Leif (named at t:51:44): older man, balding, wearing plaid shirt and dark tie visible, audible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing light shirt visible, audible
  • Betty Lee (named at t:51:40): woman, dark hair, wearing light dress with ruffled collar visible, audible
Also said
“I'll deal with this sneaking spy.” 51:42 · “We owe him our lives, Uncle Leif. He has cancelled any such debt.” 51:44
Seen
plaid shirt, dark tie, ruffled collar dress, light shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: accusation, defense, family conflict; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

An older man confronts a younger man and a woman in a dimly lit interior, accusing the younger man of being a spy while the woman defends him. The older man orders the woman to go to her room.

“Hey, Lee!” 51:32 · “Step aside, Betty Lee.” 51:40 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 51:37 (passage 51:32–51:52); US record: No renewal found

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