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1:11:02–1:11:55 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:11:291:11:29

Play from 1:11:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 142 · shots 426–426. 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
  • unseen, only audible audible
Seen
structural elements, stacked objects
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dissatisfied; themes: rejection of progress, industrial abstraction; style notes: high-contrast black and white, abstract framing, focus on industrial or architectural forms

A single frame from a dark, abstract interior shows structural elements and stacked objects; a voice speaks against progress. No named individuals, time of day, or period are established.

“It's any better world than it used to be. I rebel against this progress.” 71:51 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 1:11:29 (passage 1:11:02–1:11:55); US record: No renewal found

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