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Things to Come · Beat 209 · permalink

Ruined building

1:03:13–1:03:33 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:211:03:21Frame at 1:03:301:03:30Frame at 1:03:321:03:32

Play from 1:03:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 127 · shots 379–381. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ruined building (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, standing in doorway visible
  • Mary (named at t:63:19): woman in dark dress, standing near doorway visible
  • man in dark clothing, standing in background visible
  • Cabal (named at t:63:29): man lying on ground, partially obscured visible
  • Gordon (named at t:63:29): man in dark clothing, standing near p4 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is seen near a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A man stands in a doorway while a woman gestures toward him. [frame:2]
  • A man lies on the ground while others stand around him. [frame:3]
Also said
“Well, it's not hurt.” 63:25 · “Cabal safe. Cabal. Well done, Gordon.” 63:29
Seen
ruined columns [frame:1], doorway with decorative lintel [frame:2], rubble and debris [frame:1], figure lying on ground [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and relieved; themes: survival, rescue, post-apocalyptic setting; style notes: static wide shots, high contrast lighting, classical architecture in ruins

In a ruined classical-style building, a man calls out as others react to a figure lying on the ground; a woman is seen near a doorway while another man stands in the background. The dialogue confirms someone named Cabal is safe and praises Gordon for his actions.

“There they are.” 63:15 · “Mary!” 63:19 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 1:03:21 (passage 1:03:13–1:03:33); US record: No renewal found

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