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Blue Steel · Beat 16 · permalink

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14:15–14:23 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; 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 14:1914:19

Play from 14:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 20–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat, dark suit, bow tie, light shirt; medium build, visible in profile visible
  • man wearing wide-brimmed cowboy hat, light vest over dark shirt; medium build, facing slightly away visible
Also said
“Remember...” 14:20 · “No harm has come to the girls.” 14:21
Seen
cowboy hats, bow tie, vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: Western, dialogue-driven, group instruction; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, studio backdrop, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats are shown in a medium shot; one speaks about entering a pass and ensuring no harm comes to girls. The setting is not visually identifiable beyond being an interior or studio-lit space.

“They're just entering the pass.” 14:16 · “You boys know what to do.” 14:18 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 14:19 (passage 14:15–14:23); US record: No renewal found

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