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Things to Come · Beat 173 · permalink

Street

59:07–59:09 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:0859:08

Play from 59:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 333–333. 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
  • multiple individuals in varied clothing, some with raised arms, appearing mid-adult, in a crowd visible
Seen
damaged buildings [frame:1], crowd of people [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: crowd, urban decay, distress; style notes: black and white, wide shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

A crowd of people is gathered outdoors in front of damaged buildings, some raising their arms. The scene is in black and white and appears to be from a historical or dystopian setting.

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 59:08 (passage 59:07–59:09); US record: No renewal found

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