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1:56–3:02 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

2:29

Play from 1:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

A single dark frame shows indistinct vertical shapes and a faint light source; no people or clear objects are visible. The transcript contains fragmented, possibly mis-transcribed lines referencing 'The King of the Rings' and 'the night of the angel'.

“The King of the Rings” 2:02 · “And the night of the angel was born on Christmas Day.” 2:32 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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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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<figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/things_to_come_ipod/b4"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/things_to_come_ipod/0006.webp" alt="Frame from Things to Come (1936) at 2:29 (passage 1:56–3:02); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Things to Come (1936), 1:56–3:02. Internet Archive copy things_to_come_ipod; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>

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Public Reel, "Things to Come (1936), 1:56–3:02", https://publicreel.org/moment/things_to_come_ipod/b4, from Internet Archive item things_to_come_ipod, retrieved 6 September 2026.