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Cavalry · Beat 88 · permalink

Forest

22:56–23:23 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:1023:10

Play from 22:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 149–149. 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
  • man wearing a hat, light shirt, and dark belt, standing outdoors visible, audible
  • Betty Lee (named at t:23:07): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Lafe (named at t:23:15): not visible audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man stands outdoors at night. [frame:1]
Also said
“I understand that you're acting very suspiciously.” 23:01 · “What is it, Betty Lee?” 23:07
Seen
hat, light-colored shirt, dark belt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: suspicion, nocturnal encounter, unresolved tension; style notes: low-key lighting, outdoor night setting, medium shot framing, high contrast black-and-white

A man in a hat and shirt stands outdoors at night while two characters, Betty Lee and Lafe, are named in dialogue. The scene includes hushed exchanges and an accusation of suspicious behavior.

“What are you doing here?” 22:56 · “Please be quiet.” 22:58 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 23:10 (passage 22:56–23:23); US record: No renewal found

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