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Things to Come · Beat 261 · permalink

Private office

1:20:13–1:20:17 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:20:151:20:15

Play from 1:20:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 159 · shots 474–474. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a white uniform with a high collar and buttons visible, audible
Seen
desk [frame:1], monitor [frame:1], white uniform [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: contemplative; themes: uncertainty, future, technology; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black-and-white, static framing

A man in a white uniform sits at a desk with a monitor, speaking about an uncertain future. No names or specific locations are mentioned in the dialogue or visible in the frame.

“I wonder what they will make it.” 80:14 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 1:20:15 (passage 1:20:13–1:20:17); US record: No renewal found

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