Industrial complex

1:27:05–1:27:16 Registered 1936

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

1:27:08

1:27:13

Play from 1:27:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 543–544. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

industrial_complex (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1

People

two figures in light-colored, possibly uniform-like attire, standing side by side visible

Seen

industrial structures with pipes and railings, balcony with metal railings

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ominous; themes: industrialization, human scale vs. machine; style notes: low-angle shot emphasizing scale of structures; high-contrast lighting; static framing

Two figures stand on a balcony overlooking industrial structures under a dark sky. A voice exclaims 'Oh, my God.' during this interval.

“Oh, my God.” 87:10 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 1:27:08 (passage 1:27:05–1:27:16); US record: No renewal found

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Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/things_to_come_ipod/b290"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/things_to_come_ipod/0543.webp" alt="Frame from Things to Come (1936) at 1:27:08 (passage 1:27:05–1:27:16); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Things to Come (1936), 1:27:05–1:27:16. Internet Archive copy things_to_come_ipod; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Things to Come (1936), 1:27:05–1:27:16", https://publicreel.org/moment/things_to_come_ipod/b290, from Internet Archive item things_to_come_ipod, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Industrial complex

Evidence and details

The record

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