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Things to Come · Beat 258 · permalink

Theatre

1:18:46–1:19:09 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 1:18:541:18:54Frame at 1:19:051:19:05

Play from 1:18:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 157 · shots 465–466. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a vest and trousers, standing on a platform visible
  • crowd of people seated in front of the stage visible
  • person seen from behind in foreground, possibly operating equipment visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a raised platform addressing a crowd. [frame:1]
  • A man stands on a stage next to a control panel and a screen showing his image. [frame:2]
Also said
“Cut him.” 79:04 · “Progress is not living.” 79:05
Seen
raised platform, crowd, control panel with lights, screen displaying image of speaker, person operating equipment
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: critique of progress, conflict between individual and collective, media control; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shots emphasizing scale and isolation of speaker, theatrical staging

A man stands on a raised platform addressing a crowd in a large hall; another shot shows him on a stage with a control panel and a screen displaying his image. The transcript contains lines questioning progress and demanding rest, with one line commanding to 'Cut him.'

“What is this progress?” 78:51 · “We demand a halt. We demand a rest.” 78:57 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 1:18:54 (passage 1:18:46–1:19:09); US record: No renewal found

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