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Blue Steel · Beat 48 · permalink

Field

21:17–22:03 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:3521:35Frame at 21:5821:58

Play from 21:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 31 · shots 66–67. 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 dark coat and hat, standing in crowd visible
  • man on dark horse, wearing cowboy hat and shirt visible
  • man on white horse, wearing cowboy hat and shirt visible
  • Teddy (named at t:21:46): woman speaking, referenced as 'Miss Teddy' in transcript audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A crowd of people stands near horses in an open area. [frame:1]
  • Two men sit on horses in a mountainous landscape. [frame:2]
Also said
“Tell us all about it, Miss Teddy.” 21:46 · “We were just coming through the pass...” 21:49
Seen
{'item': 'horses', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cowboy hats', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'mountains', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'clouds', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: violence, grief, narrative recounting; style notes: wide shots, high-contrast black-and-white, outdoor natural lighting

A group of people gathers outdoors near horses while a woman recounts an attack that killed two men. Two men on horseback are shown in a mountainous landscape.

“Dad and Tom are...” 21:39 · “Dead. They killed them. They killed them.” 21:40 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 21:35 (passage 21:17–22:03); US record: No renewal found

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