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Things to Come · Beat 43 · permalink

Field

19:54–19:59 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:5619:56

Play from 19:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 85–85. 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
People
  • figure in dark clothing, partially visible near wreckage visible
Seen happening
  • A wrecked aircraft is visible in a field with smoke rising. [frame:1]
Seen
wrecked aircraft [frame:1], smoke [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: desolate; themes: destruction, war aftermath; style notes: wide shot, high contrast black and white, static framing

A wrecked aircraft lies in a field with smoke rising; a figure stands near it. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 19:56 (passage 19:54–19:59); US record: No renewal found

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