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Blue Steel · Beat 23 · permalink

River

15:26–16:01 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:4315:43

Play from 15:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 30–30. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
rocky river [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic; themes: nature, turbulence; style notes: wide shot, high contrast black and white, natural lighting

A single frame shows a turbulent, rocky river with mist or spray rising from the water. No people, dialogue, or on-screen text are visible in this beat.

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 15:43 (passage 15:26–16:01); US record: No renewal found

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