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Blue Steel · Beat 13 · permalink

Wooden-walled room

12:06–12:21 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:1412:14

Play from 12:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 17–17. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
wooden-walled room (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt, seated at table visible
  • man in hat and dark shirt, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a table in a wooden room. [frame:1]
Seen
table [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], wooden walls [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual; themes: shared meal, rural setting; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black and white, minimal set

Two men sit at a table in a wooden-walled room; one offers beans to the other. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“These beans sure smell good.” 12:10 · “Well, help yourself.” 12:12 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 12:14 (passage 12:06–12:21); US record: No renewal found

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