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Cavalry · Beat 35 · permalink

Forest

9:01–9:54 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; 4 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 9:149:14Frame at 9:389:38Frame at 9:509:50Frame at 9:539:53

Play from 9:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 60–63. 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 in dark military uniform with epaulets and cap, standing visible, audible
  • Master John (named at t:9:27): older man in light military-style coat, blindfolded, seated visible, audible
  • man in plaid shirt, seated, facing p1 and p2 visible, audible
  • man with dark skin, wearing plaid shirt, profile view visible
Seen happening
  • Two men walk along a path in a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • Three men sit together outdoors; one is blindfolded. [frame:2]
  • A close-up shows a blindfolded man and a uniformed man speaking. [frame:3]
  • A man in a plaid shirt looks off-camera with a concerned expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“It's been burned, sir.” 9:48 · “Them bad bad men, them guerrillas.” 9:52
Seen
military uniform, blindfold, plaid shirt, tree trunk, bench
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: war aftermath, loss, uncertainty; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, natural outdoor lighting with dappled shadows

Two men in period military uniforms speak with a third man in civilian clothes in a wooded outdoor setting; one uniformed man is blindfolded. The dialogue reveals a house has been burned by guerrillas, and characters discuss the absence of Betty Lee and a brother.

“Master John.” 9:27 · “They say you're dead, son.” 9:29 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 9:14 (passage 9:01–9:54); US record: No renewal found

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