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Blue Steel · Beat 82 · permalink

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39:11–39:26 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; 3 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 39:1939:19

Play from 39:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 118–118. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • standing, wearing dark suit and cowboy hat, light shirt visible, audible
  • seated, wearing vest, cowboy hat, and boots, holding rifle across lap visible
  • boss (named at t:39:19): standing near doorway, wearing dark suit and cowboy hat, leaning against frame visible, audible
Also said
“Keep your eye on the girl. If anybody comes...” 39:16 · “Shoot. OK, boss.” 39:19
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], wooden cabin [frame:1], coat hanging on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and authoritative; themes: authority, surveillance, Western frontier; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, Western costume and setting

Three men in cowboy attire are positioned outside a wooden structure; one seated, two standing. One man gives orders to guard the place and shoot if anyone approaches, while another acknowledges as 'boss.'

“I'll be back by noon.” 39:12 · “I want you to guard this place, boys.” 39:14 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 39:19 (passage 39:11–39:26); US record: No renewal found

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