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Things to Come · Beat 45 · permalink

Field

20:21–20:38 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:2820:28Frame at 20:3720:37

Play from 20:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 89–90. 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, frame:2
People
  • person in dark uniform and headgear, handling equipment visible
  • silhouetted figure running in open field visible
Seen happening
  • Person in dark gear handles equipment. [frame:1]
  • Figure runs across field with ruins in background. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 20:30 · “Come on.” 20:33
Seen
equipment, ruins
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: survival, conflict, departure; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted figures, wide shots emphasizing isolation

A person in dark gear handles equipment while another figure runs across an open field under a cloudy sky. The transcript includes urgent dialogue about poison and leaving.

“- I leave them.” 20:22 · “If I'm killed by my own poison. Quick, Captain.” 20:24 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 20:28 (passage 20:21–20:38); US record: No renewal found

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