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Cavalry · Beat 240 · permalink

Private office

58:34–58:55 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:3558:35Frame at 58:4258:42Frame at 58:4858:48Frame at 58:5358:53

Play from 58:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 150 · shots 406–412. 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, white hair, plaid shirt, dark necktie visible
  • woman, light dress with ruffled collar, dark hair visible
  • man with mustache, wide-brimmed hat, plaid shirt, bandana visible
  • man in cowboy hat, suspenders, light pants, boots visible
  • man in dark shirt, cowboy hat, holding rifle visible
  • man in dark shirt, standing behind table visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing forward, appearing alarmed. [frame:1]
  • The man turns his head slightly; the woman remains still. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cowboy hat looks over his shoulder with a stern expression. [frame:3]
  • Several men enter the room; one holds a rifle, another stands near a table. [frame:4]
Also said
“Arm yourself for the attack! It is we who have been betrayed by your lies, sir!” 58:39 · “Murderer!” 58:48
Seen
wooden table with checkered cloth, rifle, wooden chair, shelf with bottles, patterned wallpaper
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: betrayal, confrontation, violence; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, rustic set design

Two people confront a man in a rustic interior; others enter, escalating tension. The dialogue accuses betrayal and names the man a scoundrel and murderer.

“What is the meaning of this intrusion?” 58:36 · “We've been betrayed.” 58:38 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 58:35 (passage 58:34–58:55); US record: No renewal found

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