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1:27:49–1:27:57 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:27:531:27:53

Play from 1:27:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 178 · shots 550–550. 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
  • wearing a sleeveless, knee-length tunic and boots, carrying a bundle visible
  • wearing a similar tunic with a cape or shawl, walking ahead visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures walk along a metal-railed platform. [frame:1]
Seen
metal railing [frame:1], futuristic tunic [frame:1], bundle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, procedural; themes: futurism, movement, utilitarian design; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, static medium shot, minimalist industrial set design

Two figures in futuristic attire walk along a metal-railed platform; one carries a bundle. The setting appears to be an interior structure with industrial design elements.

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 1:27:53 (passage 1:27:49–1:27:57); US record: No renewal found

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