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Cavalry · Beat 3 · permalink

Battlefield

1:17–1:47 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:221:22Frame at 1:271:27Frame at 1:301:30Frame at 1:391:39

Play from 1:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 3 · shots 2–5. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man wearing a hat and coat, viewed from behind visible
  • indistinct figures in smoke, likely soldiers visible
Seen happening
  • smoke and indistinct figures are visible on a battlefield [frame:1]
  • a man in a hat stands beside a cannon [frame:2]
  • a vertical streak of light or projectile is visible against dark sky [frame:3]
  • figures move through smoke on a battlefield [frame:4]
Seen
cannon, hat, smoke
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and tense; themes: war, conflict, anonymity of soldiers; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shots, obscured visibility due to smoke, static camera

The beat shows a battlefield scene with smoke, soldiers, and a cannon, viewed from behind a man in a hat. No dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 1:22 (passage 1:17–1:47); US record: No renewal found

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