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Captain Calamity · Beat 1 · permalink

Ship

0:00–0:46 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: name not grounded. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:020:02Frame at 0:250:25

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • George Houston (named at frame:1): man wearing a dark cap and white shirt, visible through a life preserver visible
  • Juan Torena (named at frame:2): man wearing a white headband and dark shirt, holding a small object to his mouth, visible through a life preserver visible
Seen
life preserver, life preserver
On screen
[{'text': 'GEORGE HOUSTON AS (CAPT. BILL JONES)', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'JUAN TORENA as "MIKE"', 'frame': 2}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: introduction of characters, nautical setting; style notes: static medium shots framed through circular props, high-contrast lighting on faces

Two men are shown individually through life preservers, each with a name and character role written on the ring. The setting is on water, with no other context provided in this beat.

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 Captain Calamity (1936) at 0:02 (passage 0:00–0:46); US record: No renewal found

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