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1:12:23–1:13:00 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:261:12:26Frame at 1:12:331:12:33Frame at 1:12:441:12:44Frame at 1:12:551:12:55

Play from 1:12:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 143 · shots 430–433. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in dark robe with white collar, medium build, dark hair, serious expression visible, audible
  • man in dark robe, seen in silhouette, seated or crouched visible
Seen happening
  • The speaker stands on a staircase, gesturing, while another man observes from a distance. [frame:4]
Also said
“Stop this progress.” 72:49 · “Radio is everywhere. This modern world is full of voices.” 72:57
Seen
large screen [frame:2], staircase [frame:3, frame:4], textured wall [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and confrontational; themes: resistance to technological progress, the power of voice and media, individual versus collective action; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, dramatic framing with diagonal lines and silhouettes, theatrical staging

A man in dark robes speaks against a project to send humans into space, standing near a large screen and a staircase. Another man is visible in silhouette, observing from a distance.

“Because of this project to shoot human beings at the stars. People don't like it, shooting humans away into hard, frozen darkness.” 72:26 · “They're murmuring. They've murmured before and nothing came of it.” 72:34 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 1:12:26 (passage 1:12:23–1:13:00); US record: No renewal found

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