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Blue Steel · Beat 97 · permalink

Desert

43:28–43:48 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:3243:32Frame at 43:4243:42

Play from 43:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 135–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, mid-adult, average build, visible in struggle visible
  • man in dark clothing, mid-adult, average build, visible in struggle visible
  • group of riders on horseback, distant, indistinct clothing visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move across a desert landscape. [frame:1]
  • Two men struggle physically in a wooded area. [frame:2]
Seen
horses [frame:1], trees [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, pursuit; style notes: black-and-white, wide landscape shot juxtaposed with a medium close-up of physical struggle, high contrast lighting

Two men struggle physically in a wooded area while, in a separate shot, riders on horseback move across a desert landscape. The transcript includes commands to 'Come on' and 'Get up.'

“Come on.” 43:36 · “Get up.” 43:41 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 43:32 (passage 43:28–43:48); US record: No renewal found

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