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Things to Come · Beat 25 · permalink

Street

14:55–15:14 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 14:5714:57Frame at 15:0215:02Frame at 15:1115:11Frame at 15:1315:13

Play from 14:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 46–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • A bright flare or explosion erupts near a building facade. [frame:1]
  • A crowd of figures is seen in motion, partially obscured by smoke or darkness. [frame:2]
  • A large cloud of smoke or dust fills the frame, obscuring details. [frame:3]
  • The interior of a damaged vehicle is visible, with debris and smoke. [frame:4]
Seen
building facade with columns, bright flare/explosion, crowd of figures, smoke/dust cloud, damaged vehicle interior
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and tense; themes: destruction, chaos, urban disaster; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic lighting, use of smoke and darkness to obscure and create tension

A dark, smoky scene shows a crowd near a building with a bright flare or explosion, followed by chaotic movement and obscured figures. The final frame reveals a damaged vehicle interior with debris and smoke.

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 14:57 (passage 14:55–15:14); US record: No renewal found

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