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21:13–21:50 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:2921:29Frame at 21:4821:48

Play from 21:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 94–95. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • visible in frame:2 as a dark-clad figure under a structure; face not clear; build indistinct due to distance and lighting visible
  • not visible; inferred from transcript as speaker; no visual details audible
Seen happening
  • A figure is visible under a structure with beams. [frame:1]
  • A smoky or foggy environment is visible around a figure. [frame:2]
Also said
“And then I go and give up my mask to save her.” 21:31 · “I'm not.” 21:38
Seen
structural beams [frame:2], smoke or fog [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and uncertain; themes: moral ambiguity, consequences of action, identity and concealment; style notes: low-contrast black-and-white; obscured figures; use of smoke/fog for atmosphere; static framing with distant shots

A person speaks in distress while a figure is visible under a structure; no named individuals or clear location are established. The scene includes a smoky or foggy environment and structural elements like beams, with no visible time of day or period indicators.

“I dropped it.” 21:17 · “killed her father in medicine.” 21:22 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 21:29 (passage 21:13–21:50); US record: No renewal found

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