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Captain Calamity · Beat 10 · permalink

Ship

3:26–3:33 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:303:30

Play from 3:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 31–31. 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
  • shirtless male, wearing dark cap and light trousers, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands at the helm of a ship. [frame:1]
Seen
ship's wheel [frame:1], sail rigging [frame:1], metal railing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: seafaring, solo command; style notes: medium shot, bright daylight, clear sky, centered framing

A shirtless man stands at the helm of a sailing vessel under a clear sky. The scene is shot from a medium distance, showing the ship's wheel and rigging.

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 3:30 (passage 3:26–3:33); US record: No renewal found

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