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Things to Come · Beat 49 · permalink

Battlefield

21:50–22:06 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5421:54Frame at 22:0222:02

Play from 21:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 96–97. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
battlefield (battlefield, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • A wrecked vehicle or structure is on fire, emitting smoke and flames. [frame:1]
  • The screen is black. [frame:2]
Seen
burning wreck [frame:1], smoke and flames [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: desolate; themes: destruction, post-apocalyptic; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shot of destruction, abrupt cut to black

The beat shows a burning wreck with smoke and flames, followed by a black screen. No people, dialogue, or on-screen text are visible.

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 21:54 (passage 21:50–22:06); US record: No renewal found

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