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Blue Steel · Beat 122 · permalink

Field

48:51–49:07 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 48:5948:59

Play from 48:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 180–180. 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 in dark hat and coat, on horseback visible
  • rider in light hat, on horseback visible
  • rider in dark hat, on horseback, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move through a dusty field. [frame:1]
Seen
horse [frame:1], dust cloud [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dynamic; themes: western, journey, group movement; style notes: wide shot, high contrast black and white, motion blur from dust and movement

A group of riders on horseback moves through a dusty, open landscape. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 48:59 (passage 48:51–49:07); US record: No renewal found

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