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Things to Come · Beat 312 · permalink

Control room

1:30:53–1:31:26 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; 3 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 1:30:571:30:57Frame at 1:31:101:31:10Frame at 1:31:181:31:18Frame at 1:31:251:31:25

Play from 1:30:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 188 · shots 597–608. 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:3
People
  • man, short hair, wearing dark sleeveless top, seen from side visible
  • figure in dark clothing, seen from above, standing in circular chamber visible
  • figure in dark clothing, seen from above, standing in circular chamber visible
Seen
large display panel with labeled controls, circular chamber with tall glass tubes, clock on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: technology, control, human reaction to scale; style notes: high-contrast black and white, dramatic framing with low angles and overhead shots, industrial design aesthetic

A man is seen in a control room with a large display panel, while two other figures stand in a circular chamber with tall glass tubes. The transcript includes an exclamation of shock.

“Oh, my God.” 90:55 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 1:30:57 (passage 1:30:53–1:31:26); US record: No renewal found

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