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1:23:49–1:24:11 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:581:23:58Frame at 1:24:091:24:09

Play from 1:23:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 170 · shots 513–514. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in futuristic white uniform with wide collar and belt, standing in line visible
  • William Jeans (named at t:83:49): man in dark jacket and white shirt, speaking urgently to a woman visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair and ornate headpiece, seen from behind visible
  • man in white uniform, standing in line, partially visible visible
  • man in white uniform, standing in line, partially visible visible
  • man in white uniform, standing in line, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men in futuristic uniforms stand in a line inside a modernist interior. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark jacket speaks urgently to a woman while another man looks on. [frame:2]
Also said
“After all the final experiments have been made,” 84:02 · “If they'd smash up his infernal gunmen, Honor is satisfied and you needn't go.” 84:07
Seen
futuristic white uniforms [frame:1], curved railing [frame:1], ornate headpiece [frame:2], dark jacket [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict between authority and rebellion, technological control, honor and sacrifice; style notes: stylized futuristic design, high-contrast lighting, medium shots emphasizing group formation and close-ups for emotional delivery

A group of men in futuristic uniforms stand in a modernist interior while dialogue discusses riots, stopping airways, and protecting a gun. One man speaks urgently to a woman, mentioning honor and not needing to go.

“Well, they're rioting. Bob, let them come back. Who are you? William Jeans, Destin Omnipro Department, Space Guard. Well, we've stopped the airways. They'll have to go afoot. And they'll take an hour or more to get there, even those who've already started.” 83:49 · “That gun mustn't be broken up.” 84:00 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 1:23:58 (passage 1:23:49–1:24:11); US record: No renewal found

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