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Things to Come · Beat 84 · permalink

Street

28:48–29:11 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:4928:49Frame at 29:0129:01Frame at 29:0429:04Frame at 29:0929:09

Play from 28:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 53 · shots 142–147. 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 in sleeveless shirt, handling a bundle on a table visible
  • man in hat, standing beside a cow visible
  • crowd of people in street, some carrying goods visible
  • man speaking off-screen audible
Seen happening
  • Crowd moves through a street with damaged buildings. [frame:1]
  • A man handles a bundle on a table while others watch. [frame:2]
  • Crowd continues moving in street, viewed from above. [frame:3]
  • A man stands beside a cow next to a dairy truck. [frame:4]
Seen
cow, dairy truck with sign 'J. BLAKE & SON. DAIRYMAN MILK & BUTTER', bundle on table, damaged buildings
On screen
J. BLAKE & SON. DAIRYMAN MILK & BUTTER
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: grim and controlled; themes: post-apocalyptic survival, authoritarian control, public health crisis; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide street shots, tight interior framing, static camera

A crowded street scene shows people and a cow near a dairy delivery truck; inside, a man handles a bundle while others watch. A voice reports that pestilence has been conquered due to shooting wanderers.

“Thanks to the determined action of our chief in shooting all wanderers,” 29:00 · “There have been no cases for two months. The pestilence has been conquered.” 29:05 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 28:49 (passage 28:48–29:11); US record: No renewal found

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