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54:19–54:53 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:2354:23Frame at 54:3154:31Frame at 54:3854:38Frame at 54:4754:47

Play from 54:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 90 · shots 302–305. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:3
People
  • visible from behind, wearing a light-colored shirt, standing indoors near a window visible
  • visible from side, wearing a dark top with light sleeves, looking upward indoors visible
  • Harding (named at t:54:19): not visible audible
  • Gordon (named at t:54:24): not visible audible
Seen happening
  • An aircraft is seen flying overhead from a high-angle view. [frame:1]
  • A person indoors looks upward, possibly at the aircraft. [frame:3]
  • The tail of an aircraft is shown with visible registration number WT715. [frame:4]
Also said
“Look, it's your Gordon. He's flying a block.” 54:24 · “*Sigh*” 54:46
Seen
aircraft, aircraft tail, shelves, window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory; themes: aviation, observation, collaboration; style notes: high-angle aerial shot, medium interior shot with chiaroscuro lighting, close-up on aircraft detail

A person observes an aircraft flying overhead while another person is visible indoors; the aircraft's tail displays a registration number. A sigh is heard after a comment about someone named Gordon flying a block.

“I think we'll manage it all right now that Harding knows his part of the job.” 54:19 · “Good.” 54:22 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 54:23 (passage 54:19–54:53); US record: No renewal found

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