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1:04:23–1:04:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:04:281:04:28Frame at 1:04:341:04:34

Play from 1:04:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 387–388. 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, frame:2
People
  • older man with white hair, wearing a dark high-collared uniform with shoulder details visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A dark, debris-filled area with a damaged piano or machinery is shown. [frame:1]
  • A close-up of a man in a dark uniform is shown. [frame:2]
Seen
piano or machinery, uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, grave; themes: post-apocalyptic rebuilding, authority, struggle; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight close-up on speaker, wide shot of desolation

A man in a dark uniform is shown in close-up, speaking about the beginning of a long struggle to put the world in order. The scene cuts to a dark, debris-filled area with what appears to be a damaged piano or machinery.

“Our job is only beginning. For now we have to put the world in order. It will be a long and complicated struggle.” 64:29 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 1:04:28 (passage 1:04:23–1:04:37); US record: No renewal found

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