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Cavalry · Beat 34 · permalink

Forest

8:37–9:01 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:498:49

Play from 8:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 59–59. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, light shirt, seated on horse visible
  • man with dark hat and beard, holding rifle, seated on horse visible
  • man wearing a smaller hat, seated on horse, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • The men are seated on horses in a wooded area. [frame:1]
Also said
“There's only one place to go, and that's west.” 8:47 · “No time like right now.” 8:56
Seen
{'item': 'horse', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'rifle', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wide-brimmed hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'dark hat', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and somber; themes: exodus, survival, frontier; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, low-key lighting, natural setting

Three men on horseback discuss leaving the country due to Keefe's death and incoming Yankee troops, deciding to head west immediately. The scene is set outdoors at night, with one man holding a rifle and another wearing a wide-brimmed hat.

“We've got to leave this country.” 8:38 · “Keefe is dead and our band is breaking up.” 8:40 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 8:49 (passage 8:37–9:01); US record: No renewal found

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