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1:22:43–1:22:57 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:22:451:22:45Frame at 1:22:511:22:51Frame at 1:22:571:22:57

Play from 1:22:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 164 · shots 497–499. 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:82:56): man, middle-aged, wearing a white tunic with a dark sash, seated then standing visible, audible
  • man, seated, wearing similar white tunic, holding papers visible
  • man, seated, wearing white tunic, partially obscured visible
  • man, standing, wearing white tunic, facing p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits and speaks. [frame:1]
  • The man stands and faces others. [frame:2]
  • The man stands while others sit and listen. [frame:3]
Also said
“It simply made danger and death worthwhile.” 82:52 · “Cabal.” 82:56
Seen
tunic [frame:1], sash [frame:1], chair [frame:1], table [frame:3], columns [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and declarative; themes: revolution, sacrifice, futurism, leadership; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast studio lighting, symmetrical framing with architectural columns, minimalist costume design

A man in a white tunic speaks while seated, then stands as others listen in a room with tall columns. The transcript includes lines about suffering for a purpose and a revolution making danger worthwhile, ending with the name 'Cabal'.

“There's nothing wrong in suffering if you suffer for a purpose.” 82:44 · “Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death.” 82:49 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 1:22:45 (passage 1:22:43–1:22:57); US record: No renewal found

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