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1:31:47–1:32:44 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 1:32:161:32:16

Play from 1:31:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 193 · shots 622–622. 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
  • shirtless, muscular build, visible from chest up, pointing upward visible
  • shirtless, lying or reclining, partially visible, head turned upward visible
Seen happening
  • One person points upward toward a large circular structure. [frame:1]
Also said
“But if they don't come back, my son and your daughter, what of that cabal? Then presently others will go.” 92:33 · “Oh, God, is there never to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest? Rest enough for the individual.” 92:39
Seen
large circular mechanical structure [frame:1], dark industrial interior [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and contemplative; themes: human ambition, sacrifice for progress, existential cost of exploration; style notes: high-contrast lighting, low-angle framing, monumental scale of machinery, minimal visible environment

Two figures are visible in a dark, industrial interior, one pointing upward; the transcript contains reflections on ambition, sacrifice, and the cost of progress. No names are spoken, and no specific time of day or historical period is established.

“I feel that what we've done is monstrous! What they've done is magnificent!” 92:20 · “Will they come back? Yes. Go again and again. Till the landing is made and the moon is conquered.” 92:24 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 1:32:16 (passage 1:31:47–1:32:44); US record: No renewal found

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