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Things to Come · Beat 286 · permalink

Hangar

1:26:23–1:26:38 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:26:251:26:25Frame at 1:26:301:26:30Frame at 1:26:341:26:34Frame at 1:26:371:26:37

Play from 1:26:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 174 · shots 535–538. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hangar (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, visible in frame:1 visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, climbing stairs to aircraft in frame:2 visible
  • person in light-colored robe or coat, visible near aircraft in frame:4 visible
  • person partially visible behind p3 in frame:4 visible
  • unspecified, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A man walks near a large aircraft in a hangar. [frame:1]
  • A man climbs stairs into the aircraft. [frame:2]
  • A view of the aircraft's undercarriage and structural supports. [frame:3]
  • Several people stand near the aircraft with its door open. [frame:4]
Seen
futuristic aircraft, stairs to aircraft, metal scaffolding, open aircraft door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: futurism, aviation, collective action; style notes: high-contrast black and white, static wide shots, industrial design aesthetic

People are seen near a large, futuristic aircraft inside a hangar-like structure. One person is heard saying 'Quickly, this way,' suggesting urgency in movement toward or around the aircraft.

“Quickly, this way.” 86:35 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 1:26:25 (passage 1:26:23–1:26:38); US record: No renewal found

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