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Things to Come · Beat 313 · permalink

Airport

1:31:26–1:31:38 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:31:271:31:27Frame at 1:31:311:31:31Frame at 1:31:341:31:34Frame at 1:31:371:31:37

Play from 1:31:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 188 · shots 609–617. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
airport (airport, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • unspecified, visible in crowd visible
  • hand gripping control, wearing dark sleeve visible
Seen happening
  • A clock face is visible in darkness. [frame:1]
  • A crowd moves toward an aircraft under a truss structure. [frame:2]
  • A hand grips a control lever. [frame:3]
  • A hand grips a control lever near circular gauges. [frame:4]
Seen
clock, aircraft, truss structure, control lever, gauges
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: technology, mobility, preparation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic framing with close-ups on hands and instruments, wide shot of crowd and aircraft

A clock is shown in a dark space, followed by a crowd moving toward a large aircraft under a truss structure. Close-ups show hands gripping controls. No dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 1:31:27 (passage 1:31:26–1:31:38); US record: No renewal found

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