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Things to Come · Beat 23 · permalink

Battlefield

14:23–14:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 14:2414:24Frame at 14:3014:30Frame at 14:3514:35

Play from 14:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 36–38. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • soldiers in dark uniforms, visible as silhouettes near artillery visible
Seen happening
  • An artillery gun fires, producing a bright muzzle flash. [frame:1]
  • Smoke billows from the artillery piece after firing. [frame:2]
  • Soldiers are seen near the artillery gun in a dark, smoky environment. [frame:3]
Seen
artillery gun [frame:1], smoke [frame:2], soldiers [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, chaotic; themes: war, military conflict, destruction; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic lighting emphasizing muzzle flash and smoke, wide shot showing scale of artillery and soldiers

A large artillery piece fires at night, producing a bright muzzle flash and smoke. Soldiers are visible near the gun, suggesting a military engagement.

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 14:24 (passage 14:23–14:36); US record: No renewal found

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