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Things to Come · Beat 39 · permalink

Field

19:22–19:39 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:2419:24Frame at 19:3319:33

Play from 19:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 80–81. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • A wrecked aircraft is visible in a barren landscape. [frame:1]
  • A closer view of the aircraft wreckage is shown. [frame:2]
Seen
wrecked aircraft, bare tree, smoke or haze, cloudy sky
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: bleak, somber; themes: destruction, uncertainty, post-apocalyptic setting; style notes: high-contrast black and white, static shots, wide framing in first shot, closer framing in second, dramatic lighting emphasizing wreckage

A wrecked aircraft lies in a desolate landscape with bare trees and smoke; a second frame shows a closer view of the wreckage against a cloudy sky. Two lines of dialogue are spoken: 'I'm sorry' and 'I'm not sure.'

“I'm sorry.” 19:29 · “I'm not sure.” 19:37 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 19:24 (passage 19:22–19:39); US record: No renewal found

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