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Things to Come · Beat 214 · permalink

Street

1:04:18–1:04:23 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:211:04:21

Play from 1:04:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 386–386. 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
  • figure in dark clothing, seen from behind, wearing a helmet or cap visible
  • multiple figures in the mid-ground, some standing, some moving, indistinct clothing visible
  • bodies lying on ground, some covered, some exposed visible
Seen happening
  • People are moving among bodies lying on the ground in an open area. [frame:1]
Seen
bodies [frame:1], makeshift shelters or tents [frame:1], debris and rubble [frame:1], umbrellas or canopies [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and somber; themes: war, disaster, human suffering; style notes: wide shot, high contrast black and white, static camera, documentary-style framing

A chaotic outdoor scene shows bodies on the ground and people moving among them, viewed from behind a figure in the foreground. The setting appears to be a street or open area with debris and makeshift shelters.

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 1:04:21 (passage 1:04:18–1:04:23); US record: No renewal found

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