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Things to Come · Beat 65 · permalink

Street

25:44–25:55 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:4725:47Frame at 25:5225:52

Play from 25:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 114–115. 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
  • man wearing a helmet and heavy coat, looking upward visible
  • man with dark hair and coat, looking upward, standing beside p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a helmet and coat stands under a sign reading 'Londontown'. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand side by side, both looking upward. [frame:2]
Seen
sign reading 'Londontown', helmet, heavy coat
On screen
Londontown
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival, authority, urban collapse; style notes: low-angle framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, urban decay visible in background

A man in a helmet and coat stands under a sign reading 'Londontown' while another man looks on; a line spoken in the transcript refers to 'God' and making a court. No named characters appear, and the setting is an urban street with damaged buildings.

“Why don't you shoot the...” 25:47 · “It's their lives for us. Let's get God and make a court.” 25:49 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 25:47 (passage 25:44–25:55); US record: No renewal found

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