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Things to Come · Beat 126 · permalink

Private office

39:03–39:22 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:0439:04Frame at 39:1239:12Frame at 39:1539:15Frame at 39:2139:21

Play from 39:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 76 · shots 233–238. 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:3
People
  • older man, white hair, dark high-collared clothing visible
  • woman, dark hair with ornaments, dark dress visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a heavy coat with white fur collar visible
  • older man, white hair, seated at a desk visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
  • A woman looks forward with a serious expression. [frame:2]
  • A man in a fur-collared coat stands beside a seated man in a room with a chandelier. [frame:3]
  • The man in the fur-collared coat and the woman stand close together, looking forward. [frame:4]
Also said
“Temporary accommodation, we'll do business. World communications helps no one to make war. End war, end war!” 39:16
Seen
chandelier [frame:3], fur-collared coat [frame:3], desk [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and tense; themes: negotiation, war and peace, futurism; style notes: static medium and close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, theatrical framing

A man in dark clothing speaks while gesturing; a woman with ornate hair looks on. A man in a fur-collared coat stands beside a seated man in a room with a chandelier; the same man and woman appear together in a close-up. The transcript includes talk of fuel, temporary accommodation, and ending war.

“We might.” 39:11 · “I know I can get some fuel, I've got my plans later, but if you can manage a...” 39:12 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 39:04 (passage 39:03–39:22); US record: No renewal found

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