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Cavalry · Beat 207 · permalink

Private office

52:50–53:16 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; 4 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 53:0153:01Frame at 53:1553:15

Play from 52:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 134 · shots 355–356. 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
  • man wearing cowboy hat and vest, standing, mid-adult visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing, mid-adult visible
  • man wearing light cowboy hat, seated, mid-adult visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and patterned vest, seated, mid-adult visible, audible
Also said
“Tell him we will not pay him until he's helped us trap the cavalry there.” 53:03 · “It's better to make promises you never intend to keep” 53:09
Seen
cowboy hats, patterned vest, framed certificate or poster on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, military planning, colonial manipulation; style notes: medium close-ups and group shots under studio lighting; static framing emphasizes dialogue

Four men in cowboy hats are gathered indoors, discussing a plan to attack a target and manipulate an Indian chief. One man speaks about breaking promises to Indians rather than paying them in advance.

“The Yankee spy.” 52:51 · “Tonight we'll strike at the people on that list.” 52:56 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 53:01 (passage 52:50–53:16); US record: No renewal found

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