Field

34:43–34:47 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

34:45

Play from 34:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 204–204. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1

People

person wearing dark clothing, standing behind aircraft propeller visible

Seen

aircraft with propeller, buildings in background, grassy field

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: aviation, future technology; style notes: low-angle shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A person stands behind the propeller of an aircraft on a grassy field with buildings in the background. 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 34:45 (passage 34:43–34:47); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/things_to_come_ipod/b114.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/things_to_come_ipod/b114"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/things_to_come_ipod/0204.webp" alt="Frame from Things to Come (1936) at 34:45 (passage 34:43–34:47); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Things to Come (1936), 34:43–34:47. Internet Archive copy things_to_come_ipod; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Things to Come (1936), 34:43–34:47", https://publicreel.org/moment/things_to_come_ipod/b114, from Internet Archive item things_to_come_ipod, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Field

Evidence and details

The record

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