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1:18:01–1:18:26 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 1:18:131:18:13

Play from 1:18:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 154 · shots 462–462. 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
  • man in light-colored uniform with belt and cape, walking forward visible
  • man crouching in shadow, dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light uniform walks forward in a large interior space. [frame:1]
Also said
“Is this thing to go on?” 78:15 · “Or are we sane and normal human beings to put an end to it?” 78:17
Seen
uniform with cape [frame:1], curved walls and pillars [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and rhetorical; themes: humanity's future, moral choice, authority and dissent; style notes: static wide shot, high contrast lighting, stylized architecture, monochrome

A man in a light uniform walks forward in a large, curved interior space while another man crouches in shadow; the speaker questions whether humanity will end a destructive cycle. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“I might have known.” 78:09 · “Today I'm going to put it to the world plainly.” 78:12 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 1:18:13 (passage 1:18:01–1:18:26); US record: No renewal found

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