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Cavalry · Beat 211 · permalink

Private office

54:41–55:05 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:4854:48Frame at 55:0055:00

Play from 54:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 361–362. 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
  • older man, mustache, wearing dark military uniform visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The cowboy stands in front of the seated officer in an office. [frame:1]
  • A military encampment with a cannon and tents is shown in a dry field. [frame:2]
Also said
“Leeds killers have just wiped out two families.” 54:49 · “Prepare to leave immediately, Captain.” 54:53
Seen
desk, military uniform, cowboy hat, cannon, tents
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: military command, imminent action, frontier setting; style notes: static medium shots in interior, wide establishing shot outdoors; high-contrast black-and-white lighting

A man in uniform sits at a desk while a cowboy stands before him; the cowboy is told to prepare to leave immediately. The scene cuts to an outdoor military encampment with a cannon and tents in a dry, brushy field.

“I'm going to go.” 54:42 · “Come in, Captain.” 54:46 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 54:48 (passage 54:41–55:05); US record: No renewal found

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