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Blue Steel · Beat 116 · permalink

Open plain

47:16–47:29 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 47:2247:22

Play from 47:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 163–163. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
open plain (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark clothing, riding a horse visible
  • person on horseback, wearing hat, partially obscured visible
  • person on horseback, wearing hat, in background visible
Seen happening
  • A group of riders on horseback gallops across a flat, open area. [frame:1]
Seen
horses [frame:1], wide-brimmed hats [frame:1], dark clothing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent or purposeful movement; themes: movement, open space, group travel; style notes: wide shot, high-contrast black and white, motion captured with slight blur, flat horizon line

A group of riders on horseback moves across an open, flat landscape under a bright sky. The riders wear hats and dark clothing, and the terrain appears arid with distant hills.

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 47:22 (passage 47:16–47:29); US record: No renewal found

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