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1:16:17–1:16:50 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:16:201:16:20Frame at 1:16:261:16:26Frame at 1:16:321:16:32Frame at 1:16:421:16:42

Play from 1:16:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 149 · shots 453–456. 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
  • male, wearing a light-colored, sleeveless tunic with a belt, standing on a platform visible
  • female, wearing a dark, sleeveless dress with a high collar, standing on a platform visible
  • male, wearing a light-colored, long-sleeved robe, standing on a platform visible
  • male, wearing a dark, sleeveless tunic, seated in the foreground visible
  • group of seated figures in the background, indistinct visible
  • Raymond Harswell (named at t:76:35): unspecified, referenced in dialogue mentioned
  • Morris Passworth (named at t:76:39): unspecified, referenced in dialogue mentioned
Seen happening
  • Two figures stand on a platform overlooking a large interior space with seated observers. [frame:1]
  • Two figures stand on a platform, one seated figure in the foreground. [frame:2]
  • Two figures stand on a platform, looking out over a large, curved interior space with seated observers. [frame:3]
  • Three figures stand on a platform, one seated figure in the foreground. [frame:4]
Also said
“There's Raymond Harswell, the of General Frederick. You know him? Yes, I know him. And his son.” 76:35 · “We want you to see the sun, Morris Passworth.” 76:39
Seen
platform [frame:1], tiered seating [frame:1], large windows [frame:1], futuristic architecture [frame:1], futuristic costumes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and procedural; themes: selection and evaluation, futuristic society, authority and procedure; style notes: high-contrast black and white, wide shots emphasizing scale and architecture, costumes and set design are stylized and futuristic

Two figures in futuristic attire stand on a raised platform overlooking a large, curved interior space with seated observers; dialogue indicates a selection process for young people is underway, and a specific individual named Morris Passworth is to be seen. The setting features sweeping architectural lines and large windows showing a distant, structured landscape.

“Yes, but he's making trouble. It's not going to be easy to choose these young people.” 76:18 · “With all these thousands offering themselves...” 76:23 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 1:16:20 (passage 1:16:17–1:16:50); US record: No renewal found

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