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Things to Come · Beat 54 · permalink

Battlefield

24:45–24:49 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 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 24:4724:47

Play from 24:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 102–102. 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
People
  • wearing tattered clothing, standing, appears gaunt visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands in a ruined landscape. [frame:1]
Seen
ruined buildings [frame:1], cloudy sky [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: post-apocalyptic, disease, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black and white, low-angle shot emphasizing scale of destruction

A person stands amid ruins under a cloudy sky as off-screen voices react to them carrying infection. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast lighting.

“Look!” 24:45 · “He's carrying infection.” 24:46 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 24:47 (passage 24:45–24:49); US record: No renewal found

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