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1:30:05–1:30:08 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:30:071:30:07

Play from 1:30:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 185 · shots 581–581. 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 light-colored, sleeveless uniform with a dark belt and shoulder accents; appears adult, medium build visible
  • wearing a similar light-colored uniform with dark belt and shoulder accents; appears adult, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • One figure gestures with an outstretched arm while facing the other figure on a metal platform. [frame:1]
Seen
metal railing [frame:1], scaffolding structure [frame:1], futuristic uniform [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dramatic; themes: futurism, confrontation, science fiction; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shot, theatrical staging

Two figures in futuristic uniforms stand on a metal platform with scaffolding behind them; one gestures while the other looks on. The scene is lit with high-contrast studio lighting against a dark background.

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 1:30:07 (passage 1:30:05–1:30:08); US record: No renewal found

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