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Cavalry · Beat 216 · permalink

Field

55:41–56:03 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:4155:41Frame at 55:4455:44Frame at 55:5255:52Frame at 56:0056:00

Play from 55:41 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 140 · shots 367–370. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man on horse, wearing dark uniform and hat, holding rifle visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, standing near wagon visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, standing near wagon visible
Seen happening
  • A rider on horseback holds a rifle while others ride behind. [frame:1]
  • Men stand near a wagon and wooden structure in a barren landscape. [frame:3]
  • A rider approaches a line of soldiers on foot. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 55:53
Seen
horse [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], wagon [frame:3], wooden structure [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: departure, military movement, conflict; style notes: wide shots, high contrast black and white, outdoor natural lighting

A group of mounted soldiers moves across a barren landscape, with one rider in the foreground holding a rifle. In a separate shot, men in hats stand near a wagon and a wooden structure. The transcript contains a brief exchange about someone leaving.

“I'm going to go.” 55:41 · “No.” 55:50 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 55:41 (passage 55:41–56:03); US record: No renewal found

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