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Things to Come · Beat 3 · permalink

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1:38–1:56 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 1:401:40Frame at 1:431:43Frame at 1:461:46Frame at 1:521:52

Play from 1:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 3 · shots 2–5. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:4
People
  • person wearing dark clothing and a hat, smiling, visible in close-up visible
  • figure in dimly lit background, indistinct visible
Seen
miniature castle set [frame:2], CHRISTMAS HOLLY sign [frame:4], window with light [frame:4]
On screen
CHRISTMAS HOLLY
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious and staged; themes: artifice, holiday symbolism, theatrical presentation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, close-ups alternating with wide shots of miniature sets, suggesting theatrical or model-based production design

A close-up of a smiling person is shown, followed by a miniature castle set with figures, then another close-up of the same person, and finally a dimly lit scene with a 'CHRISTMAS HOLLY' sign and a figure in the background. No dialogue or named characters are present in this beat.

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 1:40 (passage 1:38–1:56); US record: No renewal found

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