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Blue Steel · Beat 54 · permalink

Street

26:19–26:46 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 26:3226:32

Play from 26:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 82–82. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, bandana around neck visible, audible
  • man wearing a light cowboy hat, plaid shirt, belt with buckle visible, audible
Also said
“See that pal in the old grove?” 26:31 · “Huh? I'm keeping a surprise for you, too.” 26:41
Seen
cowboy hats, bandana, plaid shirt, belt buckle, building facade
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: mystery, anticipation, rural setting; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white, static framing, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats converse outdoors near a building; one speaks of a surprise and mentions a person in an old grove. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond clothing and architecture are visible.

“Get out! All right. Thank you.” 26:20 · “Yeah, I did.” 26:28 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 26:32 (passage 26:19–26:46); US record: No renewal found

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