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Things to Come · Beat 70 · permalink

Private office

26:07–26:30 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:1026:10Frame at 26:1426:14Frame at 26:2226:22

Play from 26:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 120–122. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a white apron over dark clothes, visible in frame 1 visible
  • Gordon (named at t:26:18): man, mid-adult, wearing dark uniform-like clothing, visible in frames 2 and 3 visible
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing light-colored blouse and skirt, visible in frame 3 visible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing dark robe or cloak, visible in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white apron is seen in a dim interior. [frame:1]
  • A man in dark clothing stands in striped light. [frame:2]
  • A woman and two men appear together, one man speaking urgently. [frame:3]
Also said
“How do you know?” 26:22 · “Her heart beats faster, and she feels faint, and... She won't answer me. What can I do for her?” 26:24
Seen
white apron, dark uniform, light blouse, dark robe, striped light pattern
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: medical crisis, historical reference, interpersonal tension; style notes: high-contrast lighting, dramatic shadows, medium close-ups, static camera

A man in a white apron is seen in a dim interior, followed by a man in dark clothing standing in striped light. A woman and two men appear together, with one man speaking urgently. The transcript indicates concern over a woman's physical state and a reference to historical pestilence.

“That's how they dealt with the pestilence in the dark ages.” 26:09 · “Master, stop it. Gordon!” 26:18 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 26:10 (passage 26:07–26:30); US record: No renewal found

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