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59:04–59:05 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 59:0559:05

Play from 59:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 97 · shots 331–331. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored shirt and dark pants, holding a child visible
  • child wrapped in light fabric, held by p1 visible
  • man in light shirt with hand on head, standing left visible
  • person partially visible behind p3, wearing dark clothing visible
  • person in dark clothing, right side, face obscured visible
Seen
child wrapped in fabric [frame:1], architectural columns [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: humanity, care, architectural grandeur; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shot framing, static composition

A group of people stands indoors under dramatic lighting; one man holds a child. 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 59:05 (passage 59:04–59:05); US record: No renewal found

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