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Cavalry · Beat 56 · permalink

Desert

14:36–15:04 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:4314:43Frame at 14:5414:54Frame at 15:0115:01

Play from 14:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 95–97. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man in wide-brimmed hat, plaid shirt, holding rifle visible
  • man in wide-brimmed hat, dark vest, standing facing p1 visible
  • man in wide-brimmed hat, dark shirt, smiling at p2 visible
  • man in wide-brimmed hat, holding rifle, standing with others visible
  • man in wide-brimmed hat, holding rifle, walking away visible
  • man in wide-brimmed hat, standing near horse visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a desert, one holding a rifle. [frame:1]
  • Two men in cowboy hats face each other closely, one smiling. [frame:2]
  • A group of men with rifles and horses stand in a desert with mountains behind. [frame:3]
Also said
“Ain't that what we were gonna do?” 14:53 · “Well, good luck to you.” 15:02
Seen
rifle [frame:1, frame:3], horses [frame:3], cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], vests [frame:1, frame:2], plaid shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolved; themes: frontier travel, parting ways, westward expansion; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of desert landscape, medium close-ups for dialogue, natural lighting

Two men in cowboy hats speak in a desert landscape; one holds a rifle. A group of men with rifles and horses is shown nearby. The dialogue mentions wagon trains and the Salt Lake Trail.

“How far is your road going to?” 14:37 · “There's plenty of wagon trains heading that way. You might get on as a guard.” 14:44 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 14:43 (passage 14:36–15:04); US record: No renewal found

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