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Things to Come · Beat 247 · permalink

Laboratory

1:14:44–1:15:02 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:14:501:14:50Frame at 1:14:571:14:57Frame at 1:15:001:15:00

Play from 1:14:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 148 · shots 445–447. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
laboratory (laboratory, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, white hair, dark robe with wide collar visible, audible
  • young girl, dark curly hair, white tiara, light-colored dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man stands in a futuristic room holding a device. [frame:1]
  • The man and girl face each other in conversation. [frame:2]
  • The girl speaks with an expression of wonder. [frame:3]
Also said
“But the cylinder it shoots out last goes right away from the earth.” 74:55 · “I wish I could fly around the moon.” 74:59
Seen
futuristic console, transparent barrier, tiara, dark robe
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and speculative; themes: future technology, childhood wonder, scientific explanation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static medium shots, minimalist futuristic set design

An older man in a dark robe and a young girl in a tiara are in a futuristic interior; the man describes an electrically charged gun that launches a cylinder away from Earth. The girl expresses a wish to fly around the moon.

“It's a gun that is charged by electricity.” 74:45 · “It's a lot of guns inside one another.” 74:48 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 1:14:50 (passage 1:14:44–1:15:02); US record: No renewal found

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