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1:30:43–1:30:53 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:30:441:30:44Frame at 1:30:471:30:47Frame at 1:30:511:30:51

Play from 1:30:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 188 · shots 594–596. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • indistinct figure in dark clothing, visible from behind visible
  • indistinct figure in dark clothing, visible from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A large, dark, conical structure is shown against a cloudy sky. [frame:1]
  • Two figures walk along a high metal walkway. [frame:2]
  • A close-up of a geometric metal truss is shown. [frame:3]
Seen
conical structure, metal walkway, metal truss
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: imposing and industrial; themes: futurism, industrial scale, human figures dwarfed by machinery; style notes: low-angle shots, high-contrast black-and-white, geometric framing emphasizing scale and structure

A large, dark, conical structure is shown against a cloudy sky, followed by two figures walking on a high metal walkway, then a close-up of a geometric metal truss. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 1:30:44 (passage 1:30:43–1:30:53); US record: No renewal found

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