Public Reel

Things to Come · Beat 132 · permalink

Private office

41:35–42:04 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:3741:37Frame at 41:5141:51Frame at 41:5541:55Frame at 42:0342:03

Play from 41:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 259–264. 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
  • woman, dark hair, ornate dark costume with metallic decorations, standing visible, audible
  • man, reclining, wearing dark clothing with fur trim, on a bed visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Woman stands in a room with wooden walls. [frame:1]
  • Woman sits on a bed, hands clasped. [frame:2]
  • Man reclines on a fur-covered bed. [frame:3]
  • Woman stands facing the man on the bed, near a window. [frame:4]
Also said
“My wall. There's things behind him. Things behind him?” 41:50 · “You lost your temper and you bullied him. I don't bully. I just handle the man.” 41:59
Seen
wooden wall, ornate costume with metallic decorations, fur-covered bed, window with bars
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power dynamics, conflict, class or status tension; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium and close shots, theatrical staging

A woman in ornate costume stands and speaks in a dim room with wooden walls; a man reclines on a fur-covered bed. The transcript indicates an argument about quarreling and bullying, with mention of an 'aerial bus driver' and 'things behind him.'

“Now, was that wise? Wise? Yes, wise to quarrel with him at once. Quarrel with him! Quarrel with him!” 41:38 · “You must clean that up. Clean that up!” 41:47 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 41:37 (passage 41:35–42:04); 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/b132.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite