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Things to Come · Beat 158 · permalink

Airfield

53:55–54:06 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:5853:58Frame at 54:0454:04

Play from 53:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 90 · shots 298–299. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
airfield (airport, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • back view, dark clothing, possibly male, medium build visible
  • partially visible, near aircraft, dark clothing visible
  • not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A person is seen from behind near an aircraft. [frame:1]
  • A person stands near an aircraft with a propeller, another figure is in the background. [frame:2]
Also said
“She'll have to make a job of this.” 54:01
Seen
aircraft with propeller, wireless equipment
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: isolation, technological reliance, distrust; style notes: high-contrast black and white, silhouetted figures, medium shots, dramatic lighting

A person speaks about being unable to reach a plane and being distrusted, while another person is seen near an aircraft with a propeller. The scene appears to be outdoors near an aircraft, with one person visible from behind and another partially visible.

“I could get to my plane as a wireless there.” 53:56 · “Hopeless, they won't even trust me.” 53:59 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 53:58 (passage 53:55–54:06); US record: No renewal found

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