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Cavalry · Beat 28 · permalink

Field

6:05–6:32 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:116:11Frame at 6:186:18Frame at 6:266:26

Play from 6:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 47–49. 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
  • woman wearing a plaid dress and wide-brimmed hat, seated in a wagon visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing, gesturing with right hand visible
  • Mammy (named at t:6:15): older woman wearing a patterned headscarf and light blouse, with large earrings visible, audible
  • man with mustache, wearing dark suit and bowler hat, standing behind p1 visible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing dark jacket, standing beside p3 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a plaid dress sits in a wagon while a man in a suit gestures toward her. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man stand side by side, looking off-camera with concerned expressions. [frame:2]
  • The woman in the plaid dress stands with a man in a bowler hat behind her. [frame:3]
Also said
“Cry, Mammy.” 6:22 · “Maybe we can send for you later.” 6:25
Seen
wooden wagon with spoked wheels, plaid dress and wide-brimmed hat, patterned headscarf and large earrings, bowler hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melodramatic; themes: family separation, emotional farewell, racial dynamics in dialogue; style notes: medium shots and close-ups under natural lighting; costumes suggest rural or historical setting

A woman in a plaid dress sits in a wagon while two men stand nearby; one man gestures toward her. A woman and a man are shown in close-up, followed by a shot of the woman in the plaid dress with another man behind her. The transcript includes dialogue addressing a 'Mammy' and references to raising a child and crying.

“What's old Mammy quite a do without a honey child?” 6:15 · “Didn't she raise you from a baby?” 6:19 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 6:11 (passage 6:05–6:32); US record: No renewal found

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