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Theatre

1:24:52–1:25:08 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 1:24:551:24:55Frame at 1:25:001:25:00Frame at 1:25:041:25:04Frame at 1:25:071:25:07

Play from 1:24:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 171 · shots 519–522. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in pilot's seat, wearing dark clothing, holding controls visible
  • crowd of men and women in formal attire, seated and standing visible
Seen happening
  • a large aircraft is displayed indoors to a crowd [frame:1]
  • a man is seated in the cockpit of the aircraft, holding controls [frame:2]
  • a wide view shows the aircraft on display in a large hall with many people [frame:3]
  • a projection shows the aircraft flying against a cloudy sky [frame:4]
Seen
futuristic aircraft [frame:1], cockpit controls [frame:2], projection screen [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and awe-inspiring; themes: technological progress, public spectacle, futurism; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic lighting, wide-angle shots emphasizing scale, futuristic design

A large, futuristic aircraft is displayed indoors to a crowd, with a pilot visible in the cockpit. The scene cuts to a wide view of the hall and then to a projection of the aircraft flying against clouds.

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 1:24:55 (passage 1:24:52–1:25:08); US record: No renewal found

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