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1:23:46–1:23:49 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:471:23:47

Play from 1:23:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 169 · shots 512–512. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • small figures, indistinct clothing, visible on a landing visible
Seen
spiral staircase [frame:1], balustrades [frame:1], wall-mounted shelves or planters [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: imposing, sterile; themes: futurism, architecture, human scale vs. structure; style notes: high-contrast black and white, symmetrical framing, wide shot emphasizing scale and geometry

A spiral staircase with people visible on one landing is shown in a single frame. The architecture is modernist and the lighting is artificial, with no natural light source visible.

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 1:23:47 (passage 1:23:46–1:23:49); US record: No renewal found

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