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Blue Steel · Beat 31 · permalink

Field

17:03–17:22 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:1017:10Frame at 17:1817:18Frame at 17:2117:21

Play from 17:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 40–42. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • person on foot, dark clothing, running visible
  • rider on horse, cowboy hat, dark clothing visible
  • rider on horse, cowboy hat, dark clothing visible
  • rider on horse, cowboy hat, dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A person runs across a rocky plain. [frame:1]
  • Riders on horseback approach a wooden building. [frame:2]
  • Three riders on horseback gallop across a dusty field. [frame:3]
Seen
horse [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], wooden building [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:2, frame:3], dust cloud [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: pursuit, outlaw, frontier; style notes: wide shots, high contrast black and white, dynamic movement

A person on foot runs across a rocky plain as riders on horseback pursue them near a wooden building. The transcript includes a plea for help addressed to an outlaw.

“Outlaw, please help us.” 17:11 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 17:10 (passage 17:03–17:22); US record: No renewal found

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