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Blue Steel · Beat 49 · permalink

Town square

22:03–23:08 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; 5 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 22:1222:12Frame at 22:4422:44

Play from 22:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 68–69. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, holding a woman visible
  • Miss Piggy (named at t:22:09): woman in dark hat and coat, being held, appears distressed visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing beside p1 visible
  • Mrs. Willard (named at t:22:41): woman in patterned coat and hat, speaking to p1 visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and cowboy hat, speaking to p4 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a distressed woman while others stand around. [frame:1]
  • A man speaks to a woman while another woman stands beside them. [frame:2]
Mentioned
  • Men rode after outlaws. [t:22:04]
  • A person ran to their father. [t:22:06]
Also said
“Miss Petty, you must let me take care of you.” 22:22 · “I want you to take care of Betty until I return.” 22:42
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], vest [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], patterned coat [frame:2], dark suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and protective; themes: protection, responsibility, distress; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costumes

A group of men in cowboy hats gathers around a distressed woman being comforted; a man speaks to another woman, assigning her to care for the first woman while he departs. The dialogue indicates concern for the woman's safety and a plan to send someone for another person.

“There, there, Miss Piggy.” 22:09 · “I... I... Get away from everything. Get away from everything. I'm afraid you're not.” 22:11 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 22:12 (passage 22:03–23:08); US record: No renewal found

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