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26:00–26:03 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:0226:02

Play from 26:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 118–118. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Man wearing a turban-like head covering and dark coat, holding a rifle visible
  • Man with dark hair and coat, looking toward the left visible
Seen happening
  • A man aims a rifle while another man stands beside him looking in the same direction. [frame:1]
Seen
rifle [frame:1], turban-like head covering [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, vigilance; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, tight framing on two figures, dramatic lighting emphasizing faces and weapon

Two men are shown in a close shot; one aims a rifle while the other looks on. The setting appears to be a damaged or makeshift structure, with no clear time of day or named individuals.

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 26:02 (passage 26:00–26:03); US record: No renewal found

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