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Blue Steel · Beat 135 · permalink

Mountain

51:07–51:46 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 51:2751:27

Play from 51:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 196–196. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unspecified, visible as small figures near a wagon in a valley visible
Seen happening
  • A wagon approaches along a dirt path in a mountain valley. [frame:1]
Also said
“Mel Grove is the leader.” 51:35 · “And onto your topsoil is the richest gold field ever discovered. Hooray! Boys, here comes the wagon.” 51:36
Seen
wagon [frame:1], mountains [frame:1], dirt path [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory, tense; themes: frontier, gold rush, leadership, community risk; style notes: wide landscape shot, high contrast black and white, distant figures emphasize scale

A wide shot shows a rugged mountain valley with a wagon approaching along a dirt path. Spoken lines refer to Mel Grove as a leader and mention a gold field, suggesting a prospecting or frontier context.

“Here they come, old-timer.” 51:11 · “Don't miss your mark.” 51:14 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 51:27 (passage 51:07–51:46); US record: No renewal found

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