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1:21:56–1:22:23 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; 4 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 1:21:581:21:58Frame at 1:22:011:22:01Frame at 1:22:111:22:11Frame at 1:22:211:22:21

Play from 1:21:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 164 · shots 488–491. 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
  • Cabal (named at t:81:56): man, middle-aged, wearing a white tunic with a dark sash and draped fabric, seated visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark sleeveless tunic, seated visible
  • woman, middle-aged, wearing a light-colored dress with a high collar and headpiece, seated visible
  • Passworthy (named at t:82:15): man, middle-aged, wearing a white tunic with wide shoulders and a belt, standing visible
Seen happening
  • Cabal speaks while seated, facing others. [frame:1]
  • Cabal turns his head to the side while seated. [frame:2]
  • Passworthy stands facing Cabal and the woman, while Cabal looks up at him. [frame:3]
  • Cabal sits alone, looking forward with arms crossed. [frame:4]
Also said
“The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.” 82:15 · “I'm a broken man.” 82:19
Seen
draped chair [frame:1], stylized column [frame:1], abstract table [frame:1], sash [frame:1], belt [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and philosophical; themes: the meaning of life and death, parental love and sacrifice, futurism and space exploration; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, minimalist set design with geometric shapes and draped fabrics

A man in a draped costume speaks to others in a minimalist, columned room while seated; he is later shown alone, looking forward. The transcript reveals a dialogue about life, death, and a daughter's moon journey, with one speaker identifying himself as 'Cabal' and another as 'Passworthy'.

“Cabal.” 81:56 · “Why did you let your daughter dream of going on this mad moon journey? Because I love her.” 82:00 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 1:21:58 (passage 1:21:56–1:22:23); US record: No renewal found

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