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Cavalry · Beat 68 · permalink

Desert

18:37–19:11 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:4018:40Frame at 18:5018:50Frame at 18:5918:59Frame at 19:0819:08

Play from 18:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 110–119. 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
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and plaid shirt, middle-aged, average build visible, audible
  • woman with braided hair, light-colored dress, young adult visible
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and plaid shirt, on horseback visible
  • person on horseback, distant, wearing hat and shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people on horseback and in a wagon are gathered in a desert. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman are shown in close-up, seated together. [frame:2]
  • A man on horseback holds the reins, looking off to the side. [frame:3]
  • A person rides a horse across rocky, tree-dotted terrain. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:1], wagon [frame:1], hat [frame:2], plaid shirt [frame:2], rocks and trees [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or curious; themes: encounter, stranger, western landscape; style notes: wide desert shots, medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white, static framing

A group of people on horseback and in a wagon are seen in a desert landscape; two individuals are shown in close-up, and one person rides a horse across rocky terrain. A line of dialogue states that a man has never been seen before.

“I've never seen that man before.” 18:42 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 18:40 (passage 18:37–19:11); US record: No renewal found

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