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36:35–37:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 8 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 36:4036:40Frame at 37:1137:11

Play from 36:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 219–220. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1 shows an outdoor balcony with railing; frame:2 shows an interior room with door and furniture
People
  • woman with light hair, wearing dark dress, visible on balcony visible
  • man with white hair, wearing dark coat, visible on balcony visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing light shirt, visible on balcony visible
  • man in uniform with helmet, visible on balcony visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing dark suit, visible inside room visible
  • man with light hair, wearing dark coat, visible inside room visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing light shirt, visible inside room visible
  • man with light hair, wearing dark coat, visible inside room visible
Also said
“Not an unusual sight. Everywhere we find these little semi-military upstarts robbing and fighting.” 37:07 · “We're the last trustees of civilization when everything else is failed.” 37:34
Seen
balcony railing, uniform with helmet, door, furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority vs. individual will, post-war societal breakdown, emergence of technocratic or scientific elite; style notes: black and white, high contrast lighting, medium shots focusing on group dynamics, static camera

A group of people, including a uniformed officer, are in a tense confrontation on a balcony and inside a building. One person insists on seeing a man who has arrived with Dr. Hardy, while another insists he must come to them, citing orders and the authority of their boss.

“You can't go in there. You're under a risk. You've got to go with me to the chief. All in good time.” 36:37 · “Where is this man? Why isn't he brought here? He's come up with Dr. Hardy.” 36:50 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 36:40 (passage 36:35–37:37); US record: No renewal found

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