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18:17–18:28 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:2318:23

Play from 18:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 67–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
Seen
small dark objects [frame:1], cloudy/smoky surface [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ambiguous; themes: abstract representation, scale and perspective; style notes: High-angle, abstract composition with high contrast between dark objects and a bright, diffuse background. The scale is indeterminate, creating a sense of vastness or detachment.

A high-angle shot shows numerous small dark objects scattered across a bright, cloudy or smoky surface. No people, dialogue, or identifiable location are visible in this single frame.

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 18:23 (passage 18:17–18:28); US record: No renewal found

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