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Cavalry · Beat 44 · permalink

Private office

11:59–12:16 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; 2 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 12:0412:04Frame at 12:1312:13

Play from 11:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 77–78. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military uniform with hat and epaulets, standing visible
  • man in silhouette, seated, holding a document or folder visible
Also said
“We are constructing a telegraph line there.” 12:10 · “same conspiracy threatens this project.” 12:15
Seen
military uniform, hat with insignia, silhouetted seated figure, window with curtains, wall-mounted picture frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: military authority, political conspiracy, communication infrastructure under threat; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, formal composition

Two men in a dimly lit room discuss a conspiracy threatening a telegraph line project. One man, in uniform, stands while the other sits in silhouette.

“Reports have come.” 12:00 · “a flock to establish an independent country on our western borders.” 12:02 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 12:04 (passage 11:59–12:16); US record: No renewal found

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