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Blue Steel · Beat 45 · permalink

Mountain

19:52–19:55 Registered 1934

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

Frame at 19:5419:54

Play from 19:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 63–63. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a wide-brimmed hat and light-colored shirt, riding a dark horse visible
  • wearing a light-colored hat and dark coat, riding a dark horse visible
Seen happening
  • Two riders on horseback ascend a rocky slope [frame:1]
Seen
horses [frame:1], hats [frame:1], rocky slope [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: journey, obstacle, western; style notes: high-contrast black and white, rear-view framing emphasizing ascent and isolation

Two riders on horseback are seen from behind, ascending a steep, rocky slope. The scene is shot in black and white with no visible dialogue or on-screen text.

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 19:54 (passage 19:52–19:55); US record: No renewal found

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