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Things to Come · Beat 20 · permalink

Street

12:02–13:23 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:4112:41Frame at 13:2113:21

Play from 12:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 30–31. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
Period
1930s evidence: frame:2
People
  • adult, visible in silhouette, wearing dark clothing visible, audible
  • child, visible in silhouette, small build visible, audible
  • multiple figures, dark clothing, running visible
Seen happening
  • An adult and child are seen in silhouette in a dark interior. [frame:1]
  • People run on a street as a large aircraft flies low over a bus and a sign reading 'SANDE'. [frame:2]
Also said
“Goodbye, son.” 12:40 · “Get to cover. Get under cover at once. The enemy are not an elite race force, and our anti-aircraft gunner will speedily destroy them.” 13:15
Seen
silhouetted figures, fence, bus, aircraft, sign reading 'SANDE', street
On screen
{'value': 'SANDE', 'evidence': 'frame:2'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: war, civilian evacuation, parent-child farewell; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted figures, dramatic low-angle shot of aircraft

A person speaks encouragingly to a child in a dark interior, then the scene cuts to a street at night where people flee as a large aircraft flies low over a bus and a sign reading 'SANDE'.

“Courage, my dear.” 12:03 · “Well, you've got to do your bits, you know, Sonny. You've got to do your bits. I'm enough for two, baby. That's the spirit.” 12:29 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 12:41 (passage 12:02–13:23); US record: No renewal found

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