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Captain Calamity · Beat 100 · permalink

Ship

30:28–31:38 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 31:0331:03

Play from 30:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 262–262. 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
  • man wearing a dark sailor cap and light shirt, visible in frame 1 visible, audible
  • bald man wearing a dark work shirt, visible in frame 1 visible, audible
Also said
“I'm the ship's mascot.” 31:12 · “Ahoy, Bill! Ahoy! Ahoy there!” 31:26
Seen
ship railing [frame:1], ropes and rigging [frame:1], ocean background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: betrayal, treasure hunt, shipboard intrigue; style notes: medium shot on deck, natural daylight, two characters in close frame, ocean backdrop

Two men on a ship discuss a plot involving drugged coffee and treasure, while one identifies himself as the ship's mascot. The setting is aboard a vessel at sea, with no visible land or other people nearby.

“Bird, Skip, I didn't steal that money. A fellow gave it to me to put some stuff in your coffee.” 30:29 · “And then he and his mates are coming aboard to find our treasure.” 30:42 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 Captain Calamity (1936) at 31:03 (passage 30:28–31:38); US record: No renewal found

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