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Blue Steel · Beat 46 · permalink

Cave

19:55–20:33 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:1420:14

Play from 19:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 64–64. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cave (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt, seated, holding something small, looking at p2 visible
  • man in darker shirt, seated, hand to head, appears injured or in pain visible
Also said
“I reckon I owe you my life.” 20:16 · “Please forgive me. Don't worry about that, Dad. We gotta get out of here.” 20:18
Seen
rocky cave wall [frame:1], small object in p1's hands [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, somber; themes: survival, debt of life, father-son dynamic; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on two seated figures, high contrast shadows

Two men are seated in a dim, rocky interior; one tends to the other who appears injured. Dialogue suggests a recent shooting and fall, with one man thanking the other and urging escape.

“Alright, when I got you, old timer?” 20:00 · “I only shot you off your horse and you fell over the cliff.” 20:07 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 20:14 (passage 19:55–20:33); US record: No renewal found

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