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Blue Steel · Beat 39 · permalink

River

18:49–19:02 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:4918:49Frame at 18:5218:52Frame at 18:5618:56Frame at 19:0019:00

Play from 18:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 54–57. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man swimming, wearing dark clothing visible
  • person swimming, partially obscured by p1 visible
  • man on horse, wearing hat and vest visible
  • man on horse, wearing wide-brimmed hat and vest visible
  • figure obscured by smoke, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A figure is partially visible through smoke or mist. [frame:1]
  • A rocky riverbed with water flowing is shown. [frame:2]
  • Two people are swimming in the river. [frame:3]
  • Two men on horseback are riding near trees. [frame:4]
Also said
“We'd better make sure” 19:01
Seen
horses [frame:4], hats [frame:4], smoke or mist [frame:1], rocks [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and unresolved; themes: pursuit, capture, uncertainty; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting

Two people are seen swimming in a river, while two others ride horses nearby. Smoke or mist obscures a figure in the distance, and dialogue suggests they are confirming the capture of individuals.

“I'm sorry.” 18:54 · “Well, we got both of them.” 18:58 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 18:49 (passage 18:49–19:02); US record: No renewal found

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