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Things to Come · Beat 164 · permalink

Field

57:33–57:58 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:3757:37Frame at 57:4557:45Frame at 57:5157:51Frame at 57:5557:55

Play from 57:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 319–322. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in a dark uniform with a wide-brimmed hat and a large white fur collar, standing on a platform visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a high collar, seated beside p1 visible
  • rows of soldiers in uniform, standing in formation in the background visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a platform addressing soldiers in a field. [frame:1]
  • The man and a woman are shown together on the platform, looking upward. [frame:2]
  • The man continues to address the formation of soldiers. [frame:3]
  • The man and woman are again shown together on the platform. [frame:4]
Also said
“You are warriors!” 57:44 · “To die!” 57:52
Seen
platform [frame:1], fur-collared uniform [frame:2], soldiers in formation [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and martial; themes: military authority, sacrifice, obedience; style notes: low-angle shots emphasizing authority, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, wide framing to show scale of the formation

A man in a fur-collared uniform stands on a platform addressing a formation of soldiers under a cloudy sky. A woman sits beside him on the platform; the transcript includes lines about entrusting machines, being warriors, and dying.

“Do you entrust these good, tried, tested machines?” 57:37 · “You are not mechanics!” 57:42 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 57:37 (passage 57:33–57:58); US record: No renewal found

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