Public Reel

Things to Come · Beat 125 · permalink

Private office

38:39–39:03 Registered 1936

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; 4 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 38:4938:49Frame at 39:0239:02

Play from 38:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 231–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, in dark coat, seated at desk visible
  • man in fur-collared coat, standing, central figure visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seated behind desk visible
  • woman with dark hair, standing beside p2 visible
Also said
“You run into trouble if you try and land here in wartime!” 38:53 · “Can you do anything in munitions? Not our line of business. Fure, spare parts. We've got planes, we've got planes. I've got boys that have trained a bit on the ground. With no fuel, it hampers us. We might do a deal.” 39:02
Seen
chandelier, desk, fur-collared coat, dark suit, ornate wall paneling
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: wartime logistics, international trade, bureaucratic negotiation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shots, ornate set design suggesting authority or wealth

A man in a fur-collared coat speaks with others in a dimly lit, ornate room while discussing wartime logistics and trade. The conversation mentions World Communications, munitions, and fuel shortages.

“I tell you, wings over the world. That's nothing. What government do you under? Common sense.” 38:43 · “I belong to World Communications.” 38:48 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Things to Come (1936) at 38:49 (passage 38:39–39:03); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/things_to_come_ipod/b125.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite