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Things to Come · Beat 91 · permalink

Street

31:08–31:21 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote 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 31:1231:12Frame at 31:1631:16Frame at 31:1931:19Frame at 31:2031:20

Play from 31:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 55 · shots 163–166. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • silhouetted figures on horseback visible
  • man in hat holding a cow, another man in uniform standing nearby visible
  • worker in apron pouring from a container visible
  • silhouetted crowd in front of ruins visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback are silhouetted against a bright sky. [frame:1]
  • A cow is held on a street with a sign reading 'J. BLAKE & SON.' [frame:2]
  • A worker pours from a container into a bucket. [frame:3]
  • A crowd stands before a backdrop of ruined buildings. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:1], cow [frame:2], sign: J. BLAKE & SON [frame:2], container and bucket [frame:3], ruined buildings [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and chaotic; themes: urban decay, labor, post-apocalyptic setting; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted figures, rapid cuts between disparate scenes

A sequence of four black-and-white frames shows silhouetted riders on horseback, a street scene with a cow and a sign for 'J. BLAKE & SON', a worker pouring from a container, and a darkened crowd before a backdrop of ruined buildings. The only spoken line in this beat is 'The box is heavy.'

“The box is heavy.” 31:08 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 31:12 (passage 31:08–31:21); US record: No renewal found

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