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1:20:20–1:20:43 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:20:231:20:23Frame at 1:20:351:20:35

Play from 1:20:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 161 · shots 476–477. 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 white futuristic uniform with shoulder cape and belt, medium build, dark hair, clean-shaven visible, audible
  • Man in white futuristic uniform with striped shoulder detail, medium build, dark hair, clean-shaven visible, audible
Also said
“You've got experiment in your blood, you and your daughter.” 80:31 · “The two of them must have got together. They'll come back together. This time there's no attempt to land on the moon.” 80:38
Seen
futuristic white uniforms [frame:1], large indoor plants [frame:1], curved architectural walls [frame:1], metal railing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and speculative; themes: legacy and inheritance, scientific ambition, futurism and utopian design; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast studio lighting, symmetrical framing, minimalist futuristic set design

Two men in futuristic white uniforms stand in a spacious, minimalist interior with large plants and curved architecture. One man speaks about Carol and her lineage, referencing John Gabel and a moon mission, while the other responds about normalcy and collaboration.

“Well, for you, Carol...” 80:23 · “Oh, the great-grandson of John Gabel, the air dictator, the man who changed the whole course of the world...” 80:25 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 1:20:23 (passage 1:20:20–1:20:43); US record: No renewal found

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