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Blue Steel · Beat 92 · permalink

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42:00–42:04 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:0242:02

Play from 42:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 129–129. 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
  • Mel Groves (named at t:42:00): man wearing a dark cowboy hat and dark coat, visible from chest up visible, audible
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat and dark jacket, visible from chest up visible
  • person in a hat, partially visible behind p1 and p2, face obscured visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand outdoors in cowboy attire. [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], dark coats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: deception, western, pursuit; style notes: black and white, medium shot, outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats stand outdoors with a third partially visible behind them; one speaks about being tricked and heading to a hideout. The scene is shot in black and white with no visible interior elements or time indicators.

“You've been tricked, Mel Groves.” 42:00 · “Now headed for the hideout.” 42:01 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 42:02 (passage 42:00–42:04); US record: No renewal found

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