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31:46–31:52 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:4931:49

Play from 31:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 176–176. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • visible from behind, light-colored hair, wearing dark clothing visible
  • visible from side, wearing a hat and dark clothing visible
  • visible in crowd, wearing heavy or textured clothing visible
Seen
large damaged structure [frame:1], crowd of people [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber or tense; themes: destruction, crowd gathering, post-catastrophe; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shot framing, dramatic lighting emphasizing the structure and crowd

A crowd gathers around a large, damaged structure under bright lighting. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 31:49 (passage 31:46–31:52); US record: No renewal found

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