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Things to Come · Beat 166 · permalink

Street

58:12–58:19 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:1558:15

Play from 58:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 324–324. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark trousers, mid-adult, average build visible
  • crowd of indistinct figures in dark clothing, some with hats visible
Seen happening
  • a man walks forward through a street lined with damaged classical architecture [frame:1]
Seen
damaged classical columns [frame:1], debris and rubble [frame:1], crowd of onlookers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and tense; themes: urban decay, public gathering, post-conflict; style notes: wide shot, high contrast black-and-white, static framing, monumental scale

A crowd gathers in a damaged urban street with classical columns and debris, as a man in light clothing walks forward. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames.

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 58:15 (passage 58:12–58:19); US record: No renewal found

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