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Things to Come · Beat 26 · permalink

Street

15:14–15:46 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:1515:15Frame at 15:2515:25Frame at 15:3515:35Frame at 15:4515:45

Play from 15:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 51–57. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • silhouetted figure in dark clothing, visible in low light visible
  • person with curly hair, seen in profile through a window visible
Seen happening
  • A figure is visible inside a vehicle with another person seen through a window. [frame:1]
  • A dark, smoky scene with indistinct figures moving through wreckage. [frame:2]
  • A chaotic street scene with debris and a vehicle marked '76'. [frame:3]
  • A vehicle with 'Star' and '12' on its side is shown amidst smoke. [frame:4]
Seen
vehicle, smoke, debris
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and ominous; themes: destruction, urban chaos, human reaction to disaster; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white cinematography, low-key lighting, wide shots of destruction

A dark, chaotic scene unfolds with figures moving through smoke and debris near a vehicle marked 'Star' and '12'. A voice exclaims 'Oh, my God' at 15:15, indicating shock at the destruction.

“Oh, my God.” 15:15 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 15:15 (passage 15:14–15:46); US record: No renewal found

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