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Things to Come · Beat 60 · permalink

Street

25:34–25:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names 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 25:3525:35

Play from 25:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 109–109. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult, wearing heavy coat and hat, medium build visible
  • adult, wearing heavy coat and hat, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • Two people stand close together in a ruined street, one holding the other's arm. [frame:1]
Seen
heavy coats [frame:1], hats [frame:1], ruined buildings [frame:1], debris on ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: ruin, survival, human connection; style notes: black and white, high-contrast lighting, medium shot framing, static camera

Two people in heavy coats and hats stand in a ruined urban setting, one holding the other's arm. The scene is shot in black and white with high-contrast lighting, showing debris and damaged structures in the background.

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 25:35 (passage 25:34–25:36); US record: No renewal found

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