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Things to Come · Beat 118 · permalink

Ruined settlement

35:18–35:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 35:2735:27

Play from 35:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 73 · shots 214–214. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ruined settlement (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult, wearing light-colored shirt and dark pants, walking with purpose visible, audible
  • multiple figures in background, indistinct, some crouching or moving near structures visible
Seen happening
  • Person walks through a ruined settlement with makeshift shelters and other figures present. [frame:1]
Also said
“I used to live over there for years.” 35:31 · “Ever heard of a man named Partworthy?” 35:34
Seen
makeshift shelters, rubble and uneven ground, cloudy sky
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, reflective; themes: memory, ruin, survival, nostalgia; style notes: wide shot, high-contrast black-and-white, natural lighting, static camera, emphasis on desolation and human movement through decay

A person walks through a ruined settlement under a cloudy sky while speaking about remembering the place and a man named Partworthy. The scene includes makeshift structures and other figures in the background.

“I know the way.” 35:18 · “Remember this place well” 35:29 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 Things to Come (1936) at 35:27 (passage 35:18–35:37); US record: No renewal found

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