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Cavalry · Beat 245 · permalink

Living room

59:59–1:00:55 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; 6 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 1:00:241:00:24Frame at 1:00:511:00:51

Play from 59:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 422–423. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • General (named at t:60:03): man in dark military uniform with hat and epaulets, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in light blouse and dark skirt, mid-adult, visible from side visible
  • older man seated at table, balding, wearing vest visible
  • Uncle Lace (named at t:60:16): unseen speaker, referred to as 'Uncle Lace' mentioned
  • Father (named at t:60:43): unseen speaker, referred to as 'Father' mentioned, audible
  • Betty Lee (named at t:60:46): unseen speaker, referred to as 'Betty Lee' mentioned, audible
Also said
“- Father! - Father!” 60:43 · “They said you were dead. Yes, I know Betty Lee. John, Leif.” 60:49
Seen
military uniform with hat and epaulets, wooden walls and furniture, checkered tablecloth, woven rug, shelf with pots and pans, newspaper or document held by woman
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: emotional reunion; themes: family reunion, military homecoming, emotional revelation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, period costume detail, interior set with rustic decor

A man in military uniform is greeted in a rustic interior; dialogue reveals a reunion with family members, including a daughter named Betty Lee and a father. The setting includes wooden walls, a checkered tablecloth, and period military attire.

“I hope you'll be happy here, General.” 60:03 · “It is the happiest day of my life.” 60:13 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 1:00:24 (passage 59:59–1:00:55); US record: No renewal found

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