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Things to Come · Beat 32 · permalink

Sea

17:38–17:56 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:4617:46Frame at 17:5517:55

Play from 17:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 63–64. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sea (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
aircraft [frame:1], rocky surface [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: war, nature, scale; style notes: high-contrast black and white, dramatic lighting, wide shot followed by extreme close-up

Two frames show a dark, cloudy sky with aircraft silhouetted above water, followed by a close-up of a rocky, uneven surface. No people, dialogue, or on-screen text are visible.

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 17:46 (passage 17:38–17:56); US record: No renewal found

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