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Cavalry · Beat 208 · permalink

Road

53:16–53:45 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:2753:27Frame at 53:4153:41

Play from 53:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 135 · shots 357–358. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and coat, visible in low light visible, audible
  • man wearing a hat, visible in low light visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand on a road at night, one speaking to the other. [frame:1]
  • The two men face each other, continuing their conversation. [frame:2]
Also said
“Rebecca!” 53:35 · “Soon as we finish this job we'll wipe out the Thompson family” 53:38
Seen
hats [frame:1], coats [frame:1], fence [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: conspiracy, revenge, frontier justice; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing, high contrast between figures and dark background

Two men in hats are seen outdoors at night, discussing a plan that involves meeting at Cottonwood Hollow and targeting the Thompson family. One man calls out 'Rebecca!' and mentions wiping out the family after finishing a job.

“Jase?” 53:17 · “At the head of the pass near Cottonwood Hollow.” 53:19 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 53:27 (passage 53:16–53:45); US record: No renewal found

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