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Things to Come · Beat 245 · permalink

Private office

1:13:43–1:14:21 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:13:591:13:59Frame at 1:14:181:14:18

Play from 1:13:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 147 · shots 441–442. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in light-colored dress, standing, holding a man's arm visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, facing woman visible
  • person seated in background, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man stand together looking at a large screen showing a cityscape. [frame:1]
  • The man walks away from the screen while the woman remains seated. [frame:2]
Also said
“They had no problem in mixed and conditioned air.” 74:00 · “The age of windows lasted four centuries.” 74:11
Seen
large screen displaying cityscape, glass walls and modern furniture, man in dark suit, woman in light dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reflective and analytical; themes: technological progress, architectural evolution, contrast between past and future; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide framing, modernist set design with glass and clean lines, static camera

Two people stand in a modern, glass-walled interior, observing a large screen displaying a cityscape. The dialogue discusses historical architecture, specifically the use of windows and height in old cities like New York, contrasting it with modern interior lighting.

“What a funny place New York was.” 73:44 · “There's no light inside those cities as we have.” 73:53 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 1:13:59 (passage 1:13:43–1:14:21); US record: No renewal found

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