Blue Steel · Beat 107 · permalink

Road

45:21–45:42 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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.

45:2545:36

Play from 45:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Two frames show a rider on horseback near a tethered horse and a wagon on a dirt road with hills in the background. The transcript includes exclamations but no named characters or clear event descriptions.

“All right.” 45:28 · “Oh, my God.” 45:31 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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<figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/BlueSteel/b107"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/BlueSteel/0150.webp" alt="Frame from Blue Steel (1934) at 45:25 (passage 45:21–45:42); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Blue Steel (1934), 45:21–45:42. Internet Archive copy BlueSteel; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>

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Public Reel, "Blue Steel (1934), 45:21–45:42", https://publicreel.org/moment/BlueSteel/b107, from Internet Archive item BlueSteel, retrieved 6 September 2026.