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Blue Steel · Beat 134 · permalink

Desert

50:53–51:07 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:0051:00

Play from 50:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 195–195. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a wide-brimmed hat, crouched, partially obscured by dust visible
  • wearing a dark hat, crouched, facing away visible
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], dark hat [frame:1], dust or spray [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, outdoor struggle; style notes: low-angle shot, high-contrast black and white, dust effect suggests action

Two figures in hats are crouched on a sandy, uneven surface. One figure is partially obscured by dust or spray kicked up from the ground.

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 51:00 (passage 50:53–51:07); US record: No renewal found

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