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Blue Steel · Beat 104 · permalink

Field

44:35–45:02 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:3644:36Frame at 44:3844:38Frame at 44:4844:48Frame at 45:0045:00

Play from 44:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 144–147. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in dark shirt and pants, wearing a belt, seen from back and side visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, wearing a belt, appears to be falling or being pushed visible
  • woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a belted uniform-style jacket visible
  • group of riders on horseback, indistinct features visible
Seen happening
  • A man in dark clothing confronts another man in light clothing. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a hat and uniform stands in a field. [frame:2]
  • The man in light clothing is knocked or falls to the ground. [frame:3]
  • A group of horsemen rides across a plain with mountains in the background. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 44:55
Seen
hat, belt, horses, mountains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: pursuit, confrontation, outdoor action; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor wide shots, medium close-ups, natural lighting

Two men are seen in a confrontation outdoors, one of whom is knocked down; a woman in a hat and uniform stands nearby. A group of horsemen rides across a plain with mountains in the background. The transcript includes exclamations and a line indicating urgency and pursuit.

“Oh, God.” 44:36 · “Good work, son, but we got a hurry. They're coming back.” 44:50 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 Blue Steel (1934) at 44:36 (passage 44:35–45:02); US record: No renewal found

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