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Things to Come · Beat 310 · permalink

Control room

1:30:23–1:30:43 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:30:241:30:24Frame at 1:30:291:30:29Frame at 1:30:341:30:34Frame at 1:30:421:30:42

Play from 1:30:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 188 · shots 587–593. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
control_room (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark shirt, seen from behind, at a console visible
Seen happening
  • A man is visible at a control console. [frame:4]
Seen
large cylindrical structures [frame:1], control console with labeled panels [frame:4], circular target display [frame:4]
On screen
{'value': "OBSERVER'S OFFICE—\nENGINEERS: 1-2-3-4\nROOM\nCONTROL\nPOWER\nCRANE\nPROJECTILE\nLIFTS: 1-2-3\nPLATFORMS: A-J\nTRANSPORT OFFICE\nTRAFFIC CONTROL\nOUTSIDE OBSERVE\nLINK LINE —1", 'evidence': 'frame:4'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: technical and observational; themes: technology, control, urban planning; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static shots, focus on machinery and control interfaces

A control room with large cylindrical structures and a man at a console is shown. A transcript line states that 'They're all outside of the suburbs.'

“They're all outside of the suburbs.” 90:25 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 1:30:24 (passage 1:30:23–1:30:43); US record: No renewal found

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