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Things to Come · Beat 38 · permalink

Sky

19:06–19:22 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:0819:08Frame at 19:1319:13Frame at 19:2019:20

Play from 19:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 77–79. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sky (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • pilot visible in cockpit, wearing dark clothing and possibly a helmet or goggles visible
Seen happening
  • a biplane is seen flying through clouds [frame:1]
  • close-up of the biplane's cockpit showing a pilot [frame:2]
  • the biplane is seen as a small silhouette against the cloudy sky [frame:3]
Seen
biplane [frame:1], cockpit [frame:2], pilot [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and focused; themes: aviation, solitude, mechanical flight; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dynamic aerial shots, tight cockpit framing

A biplane flies through a cloudy sky, followed by a close-up of its cockpit with a pilot visible, then a distant shot of the plane as a silhouette. No people are named, no dialogue is present, and no indoor setting is shown.

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 19:08 (passage 19:06–19:22); US record: No renewal found

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