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Things to Come · Beat 189 · permalink

Street

1:00:19–1:00:25 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:211:00:21Frame at 1:00:241:00:24

Play from 1:00:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 111 · shots 349–350. 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 wearing a dark coat with a large fur collar, walking visible
  • man in dark uniform, standing visible
  • woman in dark dress, standing visible
  • unspecified person audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fur-collared coat walks through a street with damaged buildings. [frame:1]
  • Multiple aircraft fly in formation through the sky. [frame:2]
Seen
fur-collared coat [frame:1], damaged buildings [frame:1], aircraft [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: post-war recovery, military presence, aerial power; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shots showing scale of destruction and aerial movement

A man in a fur-collared coat walks through a damaged street as others watch; aircraft fly in formation overhead. A voice says they will pack someone and asks where the rest of the pillars go.

“Look up where the rest of our pillars go on! I'll pack him!” 60:20 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 1:00:21 (passage 1:00:19–1:00:25); US record: No renewal found

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