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Blue Steel · Beat 47 · permalink

Field

20:33–21:17 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:5520:55

Play from 20:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 65–65. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, dark vest, light shirt, holding a whip or rope visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, dark suit jacket, light shirt visible, audible
  • Jake (named at t:20:48): unseen, mentioned as 'Jake' mentioned
  • Betty (named at t:21:14): unseen, mentioned as 'the girl' and 'Betty' mentioned
Seen happening
  • Two men in cowboy hats stand facing each other near horses. [frame:1]
Also said
“Are you sure she didn't recognize you? Nah, we didn't get close enough for that.” 20:51 · “Hello, boys. Any worries from the pack train? Here comes Betty now. Where's your pop?” 21:14
Seen
cowboy hats, horses, whip or rope
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conversational; themes: confrontation, escape, arrival; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats converse outdoors near horses; one mentions a fight and a girl named Betty arriving. The transcript references a girl, a fight, and someone named Jake being killed.

“They got Jake, but they're on the bottom of the river.” 20:48 · “What about the girl?” 20:50 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 20:55 (passage 20:33–21:17); US record: No renewal found

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