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Captain Calamity · Beat 101 · permalink

Ship

31:38–32:01 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:5031:50

Play from 31:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 263–263. 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
  • Bill (named at t:31:56): shirtless male, dark hair, muscular build, wearing light-colored trousers visible, audible
  • Doc (named at t:31:56): female, light hair, wearing a light-colored shirt, seated or leaning back visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man assists a woman on a boat. [frame:1]
Also said
“Well, if I can raise some money in a day or two, we'll put to sea in another thing. As soon as we overhaul the wildfire, you're going to marry young Mackenzie. Do you get that?” 31:56 · “I get it, Bill. Well, what's the matter? You love him, don't you? You're no sweetheart. Well, I'm glad that's settled. So long, Bill. So long, Doc. Bye.” 31:56
Seen
rope [frame:1], schooner [t:31:46], wildfire [t:31:56]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted negotiation with undertones of romantic tension; themes: marriage arrangement, sea voyage, chaperone requirement; style notes: medium shot, natural lighting, outdoor maritime setting, period costume

Two people on a boat discuss sailing plans and a marriage arrangement; one is shirtless and assisting the other. The conversation includes references to a chaperone, raising money, and marrying young Mackenzie.

“Well, wait a minute. I've been thinking. A girl like you alone on a schooner with a guy like me? Maybe we ought to have a chaperone. That's right, you should.” 31:46 · “Why don't you come along? Sure, Doc. Everybody knows you're on the level. The voyage would do you good. Not a bad idea. I'd like to get away at that. Then it's settled. How soon do we sail?” 31:56 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 31:50 (passage 31:38–32:01); US record: No renewal found

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