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Things to Come · Beat 246 · permalink

Private office

1:14:21–1:14:44 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:14:311:14:31Frame at 1:14:421:14:42

Play from 1:14:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 148 · shots 443–444. 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
  • Holder (named at t:74:31): elderly man, white hair and beard, wearing a dark robe with fur collar visible
  • young woman, dark hair, wearing a white sleeveless dress visible
Seen happening
  • An elderly man sits in a chair with hands on hips. [frame:1]
  • A young woman sits on a couch, looking to her right. [frame:2]
Also said
“Holder.” 74:31 · “The face of Don of theirs that they keep on shooting.” 74:38
Seen
transparent table [frame:1], vase with flowers [frame:1], futuristic chair [frame:1], couch [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: contemplative; themes: technological progress, generational perspective, futurism; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, minimalist futuristic set design

An elderly man in a robe sits in a futuristic interior while a young woman in a white dress sits nearby. The transcript includes dialogue about invention, beauty, and a character named 'Holder' who is referred to as a 'great-grandfather'.

“They keep on inventing new things nowadays.” 74:22 · “and making life lovelier and lovelier.” 74:25 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 1:14:31 (passage 1:14:21–1:14:44); US record: No renewal found

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