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Blue Steel · Beat 33 · permalink

Mountainous desert

17:40–17:56 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 17:4417:44Frame at 17:4917:49Frame at 17:5417:54

Play from 17:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 45–47. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountainous desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • rider on horse, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • rider on horse, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • rider on horse, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A rider on horseback moves across a dusty plain with mountains in the background. [frame:1]
  • Two riders gallop across the plain, one on a dark horse, one on a white horse. [frame:2]
  • Three riders on horseback gallop across the plain with snow-capped mountains behind them. [frame:3]
Seen
horses [frame:1], dust cloud [frame:1], mountains [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: expansive and desolate; themes: frontier, journey, isolation; style notes: wide shots, high-contrast black and white, natural lighting, emphasis on scale and movement

Three riders on horseback move across a barren, mountainous landscape, kicking up dust. The terrain is open and arid, with snow-capped peaks visible in the background.

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 17:44 (passage 17:40–17:56); US record: No renewal found

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