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Blue Steel · Beat 21 · permalink

Mountain

14:59–15:24 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:0915:09Frame at 15:2015:20Frame at 15:2315:23

Play from 14:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 26–28. 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
  • rider on horse, wearing dark clothing, visible from behind visible
  • rider on horse, wearing dark clothing, visible in profile visible
  • rider on horse, wearing dark clothing, visible in motion ahead visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move through rocky terrain. [frame:1]
  • A rider in profile gallops forward, kicking up dust. [frame:2]
  • A rider ascends a steep, rocky slope. [frame:3]
Seen
horses [frame:1], rocky terrain [frame:1], dust [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and rugged; themes: journey, isolation, struggle; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, dynamic motion, high contrast lighting

A group of riders on horseback moves through a rocky, mountainous terrain. One rider is seen from behind, ascending a steep slope, while others are visible in motion ahead.

“I'm sorry.” 15:18 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 15:09 (passage 14:59–15:24); US record: No renewal found

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