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1:32:44–1:34:47 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; 1 name 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 1:33:461:33:46

Play from 1:32:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 194 · shots 623–623. 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
  • man, middle-aged, visible in extreme close-up with dramatic lighting casting deep shadows on his face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man's face is shown in extreme close-up under dramatic lighting. [frame:1]
Also said
“We're such little creatures.” 93:23 · “All the universe or nothings.” 93:53
Seen
man's face
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, existential, contemplative; themes: humanity's cosmic destiny, fragility of human life, existential choice; style notes: extreme close-up, chiaroscuro lighting, static frame, dramatic shadowing on the face

A man's face is shown in extreme close-up under dramatic lighting during a monologue about humanity's cosmic destiny and fragility. The speech questions whether humanity's purpose is to conquer the universe or be insignificant animals.

“Too much, too soon. We call it death.” 92:47 · “And then all the laws of mind and matter that restrained him. Then the planet's about him.” 93:00 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 1:33:46 (passage 1:32:44–1:34:47); US record: No renewal found

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