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Things to Come · Beat 266 · permalink

Theatre

1:21:16–1:21:20 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:21:181:21:18

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 163 · shots 483–483. 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
  • large crowd of indistinct figures, mostly seated, in dark and light attire visible
  • single figure standing on upper balcony, silhouetted visible
Seen
multi-tiered balcony structure [frame:1], dramatic overhead lighting [frame:1], crowd seating [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and monumental; themes: collective gathering, futurism, public spectacle; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white cinematography, wide shot emphasizing scale and architecture, symmetrical framing

A large crowd is gathered in a multi-tiered, modernist hall with curved balconies and dramatic lighting. No individuals are named or speaking, and no objects beyond architectural features are identifiable.

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 1:21:18 (passage 1:21:16–1:21:20); US record: No renewal found

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