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1:02:33–1:02:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:341:02:34

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 371–371. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a dark coat and boots, walking on a narrow structure visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks along a narrow elevated structure. [frame:1]
Seen
elevated structure [frame:1], smoke or mist [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: isolation, industrial setting, nighttime peril; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, low-angle shot emphasizing height and isolation, minimal visible detail creating ambiguity

A person walks on a narrow elevated structure at night, with smoke or mist below and a dark sky above. 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 1:02:34 (passage 1:02:33–1:02:36); US record: No renewal found

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