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Blue Steel · Beat 118 · permalink

Field

48:04–48:24 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 names 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.

Frame at 48:0548:05Frame at 48:1548:15

Play from 48:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 169–170. 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
  • rider on horseback, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move across a dusty field. [frame:1]
  • The field is shown empty, with mountains and clouds in the background. [frame:2]
Seen
horses [frame:1], hats [frame:1], dust cloud [frame:1], mountains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: desolate and expansive; themes: journey, isolation, nature; style notes: wide shots, high contrast black and white, natural lighting, emphasis on landscape scale

A group of riders on horseback moves across a dusty, open landscape with mountains in the background. The second frame shows a wider view of the same terrain, now empty of riders, under a cloudy sky.

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 48:05 (passage 48:04–48:24); US record: No renewal found

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