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Things to Come · Beat 21 · permalink

Street

13:23–13:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:2513:25Frame at 13:2813:28Frame at 13:3313:33

Play from 13:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 32–34. 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
Seen
double-decker bus [frame:2], illuminated sign reading 'DOUGLAS' [frame:1], illuminated sign reading 'SANDE' [frame:2], crowd of people [frame:2], interior space with seated people and stage [frame:3]
On screen
[{'text': 'DOUGLAS', 'evidence': 'frame:1'}, {'text': 'SANDE', 'evidence': 'frame:2'}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: crowded and active; themes: urban nightlife, public gathering; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white cinematography, night exterior shots with artificial lighting, wide framing to capture crowd and environment

A nighttime street scene shows a crowd gathered near a double-decker bus and illuminated signs, including one for 'Douglas' and another partially reading 'SANDE'. The final frame shows a crowded interior space with people seated and a stage visible in the background.

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 13:25 (passage 13:23–13:37); US record: No renewal found

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