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Blue Steel · Beat 30 · permalink

Field

16:54–17:03 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:5816:58Frame at 17:0217:02

Play from 16:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 38–39. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, walking visible
  • rider in dark clothing and hat, on horseback visible
  • rider in dark clothing and hat, on horseback visible
  • rider in dark clothing and hat, on horseback visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move across a dusty field with mountains in the background. [frame:1]
  • A man walks toward a wooden structure while horses stand nearby. [frame:2]
Seen
horses [frame:1, frame:2], wooden structure [frame:2], mountains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: open and sparse; themes: outdoor travel, rural setting, solitude; style notes: wide shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting, black and white

Two frames show riders on horseback in a mountainous landscape and a man walking near a wooden structure with horses. The transcript includes the phrases 'I'm not.' and 'Amen.'

“I'm not.” 16:56 · “Amen.” 17:03 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 16:58 (passage 16:54–17:03); US record: No renewal found

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