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59:23–59:27 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 59:2559:25

Play from 59:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 338–338. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform, short hair, standing visible
  • Major (named at t:59:23): man in dark uniform, short hair, standing, profile view visible, audible
Seen
dark uniforms [frame:1], painted or projected cloud backdrop [frame:1], metal railing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military authority, duty, confrontation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, theatrical set design with artificial backdrop

Two men in dark uniforms stand facing each other against a backdrop of clouds; one is addressed as 'Major'. The scene appears to be set indoors with a painted or projected sky background.

“Major, don't stand by.” 59:23 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 59:25 (passage 59:23–59:27); US record: No renewal found

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