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Things to Come · Beat 267 · permalink

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1:21:20–1:21:56 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 5 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:21:211:21:21Frame at 1:21:311:21:31Frame at 1:21:451:21:45Frame at 1:21:531:21:53

Play from 1:21:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 164 · shots 484–487. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man, medium build, dark hair, wearing a dark tunic with a wide collar and a belt visible, audible
  • man, medium build, dark hair, wearing a light tunic with a wide collar and a sash visible, audible
  • man, medium build, light hair, wearing a dark tunic with a wide collar visible
  • woman, medium build, dark hair, wearing a light dress with a wide collar visible
  • man, medium build, dark hair, wearing a dark tunic with a wide collar visible
  • man, medium build, dark hair, wearing a dark tunic with a wide collar visible
  • woman, medium build, dark hair, wearing a light dress with a wide collar visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark tunic speaks passionately to a seated man in a light tunic. [frame:2]
  • A group of people in futuristic attire stand and sit in a large room. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark tunic leans forward speaking to another man. [frame:2]
  • A man in a light tunic sits on a bench while others stand around him. [frame:3]
  • A man and a woman sit on a bench, facing each other. [frame:4]
Also said
“You want to go into that outer horror” 81:44 · “They want fit young people, alert and quick.” 81:50
Seen
futuristic bench, futuristic chair, futuristic vase with flowers, futuristic clothing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and contemplative; themes: duty, youth, exploration, public mobilization; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, stylized futuristic costumes and set design

A group of people in futuristic attire are shown in a large, brightly lit interior space, discussing a mission to a space gun. The dialogue indicates public excitement and a need for young, fit volunteers to undertake the journey.

“Your speech has struck fire. All the people are excited and angry.” 81:21 · “Some are already going out of the city towards the space gun.” 81:25 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 1:21:21 (passage 1:21:20–1:21:56); US record: No renewal found

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