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Things to Come · Beat 221 · permalink

Mine

1:06:21–1:06:39 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 1:06:221:06:22Frame at 1:06:291:06:29Frame at 1:06:341:06:34Frame at 1:06:381:06:38

Play from 1:06:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 134 · shots 396–401. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mine (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a helmet and dark uniform, visible in a vehicle interior visible
  • wearing a helmet and dark uniform, visible in a vehicle interior visible
Seen happening
  • A large cylindrical object is being moved in a rocky area with scaffolding. [frame:1]
  • An explosion occurs, producing a large cloud of smoke and debris. [frame:2]
  • Two helmeted figures are seen inside a vehicle with curved metallic walls. [frame:3]
  • A rocket-like craft with a bright light at its tip is shown in close-up. [frame:4]
Seen
cylindrical object [frame:1], explosion [frame:2], helmets [frame:3], rocket-like craft [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: industrial labor, technological advancement, danger; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white cinematography, dramatic lighting, close-ups on machinery and faces

A large cylindrical object is being moved in a rocky, industrial setting, followed by an explosion and a close-up of two helmeted figures inside a vehicle. The final frame shows a rocket-like craft with a bright light at its tip.

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 1:06:22 (passage 1:06:21–1:06:39); US record: No renewal found

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