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Cavalry · Beat 46 · permalink

Private office

12:37–12:47 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:4012:40Frame at 12:4512:45

Play from 12:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 32 · shots 81–82. 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:2
People
  • silhouetted male figure with beard, seated visible, audible
  • silhouetted male figure wearing hat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A bearded man is seen in silhouette, seated. [frame:1]
  • Two silhouetted figures are visible in a room with curtains and a vase. [frame:2]
Also said
“in the United States...” 12:42 · “Army.” 12:44
Seen
curtains [frame:2], vase with flowers [frame:2], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and somber; themes: military promotion, formal address, shadow and anonymity; style notes: high-contrast silhouette lighting, static framing, minimal set detail

A silhouetted man speaks about a new commission and promotion to captain in the United States Army. Two silhouetted figures are visible in a dimly lit interior, one seated and one standing.

“With them, you will find a new commission.” 12:37 · “promoting you to the rank of captain.” 12:40 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 12:40 (passage 12:37–12:47); US record: No renewal found

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