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Things to Come · Beat 46 · permalink

Field

20:38–20:59 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; 3 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 20:4020:40Frame at 20:5020:50

Play from 20:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 91–92. 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
  • man in dark flight suit, short hair, mid-adult build visible, audible
  • woman in dark coat, long hair, mid-adult visible, audible
  • person lying on ground, wearing dark clothing, face up visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a flight suit is being assisted by a woman near an aircraft propeller. [frame:1]
  • The woman touches the man's arm while another person lies on the ground nearby. [frame:2]
Also said
“Why should I not have some myself?” 20:45 · “Give it to her. I'm done. I'm done.” 20:47
Seen
aircraft propeller, flight suit, dark coat, ground littered with debris
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: sacrifice, duty, human vulnerability; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, black-and-white film

A man in a flight suit is assisted by a woman near an aircraft propeller; another person lies on the ground nearby. The dialogue suggests urgency and a transfer of something, with one speaker declaring they are finished.

“Get this on quickly. Give it to her.” 20:39 · “I've given plenty to others.” 20:43 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 20:40 (passage 20:38–20:59); US record: No renewal found

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