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Blue Steel · Beat 117 · permalink

Field

47:29–48:04 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:3247:32Frame at 47:3547:35Frame at 47:4647:46Frame at 47:5647:56

Play from 47:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 164–168. 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
People
  • wearing a wide-brimmed hat and coat, seated on a wagon holding a rifle visible
  • wearing a wide-brimmed hat, riding a horse visible
  • wearing a dark coat and hat, riding a horse visible
  • wearing a hat, riding a horse visible
Seen happening
  • A rider is seen on a wagon holding a rifle. [frame:2]
  • Three riders on horseback are shown in profile. [frame:3]
  • Two riders on horseback move across a mountainous landscape. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 47:40 · “I'm not.” 47:45
Seen
horse [frame:1], wagon [frame:2], rifle [frame:2], hat [frame:2], mountains [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and uncertain; themes: journey, decision, isolation; style notes: wide shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period Western costume

A group of riders on horseback moves across an open, mountainous landscape under a cloudy sky. One rider is seen on a wagon, and others ride alongside; dialogue indicates hesitation or decision-making.

“Oh.” 47:30 · “Oh, my God.” 47:34 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 47:32 (passage 47:29–48:04); US record: No renewal found

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