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Blue Steel · Beat 59 · permalink

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28:26–28:28 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:2728:27

Play from 28:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 90–90. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a hat and a long coat, standing beside a gate visible
  • wearing a hat, partially visible behind a gate visible
Seen happening
  • A person holds open a wooden gate while another person stands behind it. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden gate [frame:1], metal ring handle on gate [frame:1], stone wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: medium shot, black and white, natural lighting, static framing

A person in a hat and coat stands beside a wooden gate, holding it open. Another person in a hat is visible behind the gate, partially obscured.

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 28:27 (passage 28:26–28:28); US record: No renewal found

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