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Cavalry · Beat 36 · permalink

Forest

9:54–10:14 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; 3 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 10:0210:02Frame at 10:1010:10Frame at 10:1210:12Frame at 10:1310:13

Play from 9:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 27 · shots 64–67. 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
  • older man, wearing a light-colored military coat with buttons, raising his hand to his face visible
  • Lieutenant Thorne (named at t:10:06): younger man, wearing a dark military uniform with epaulets and a hat with a crossbones insignia visible, audible
  • man with dark skin, wearing a patterned shirt, looking upward visible, audible
Also said
“Lieutenant Thorne.” 10:06 · “Why am I to die?” 10:11
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], military hat [frame:3], patterned shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: military hierarchy, impending death, identity and recognition; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men in military uniforms speak outdoors; one identifies himself as Lieutenant Thorne. A third man, not in uniform, is present and asks why he is to die.

“I regret that I cannot offer you the customary hospitality.” 9:55 · “I'm sorry, but I've forgotten your name again.” 10:02 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 10:02 (passage 9:54–10:14); US record: No renewal found

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