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Captain Calamity · Beat 105 · permalink

Ship

32:53–33:22 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:0833:08

Play from 32:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 58 · shots 269–269. 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 man with dark hair, muscular build, leaning forward visible
  • bald man wearing light-colored shirt, lying down, looking up visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man leans over a bald man lying in a boat. [frame:1]
Also said
“Look, and then after you're knocked out with the stuff, I'm supposed to show a light in the taffle. Then he comes out in the boat with some gin for the crew.” 32:56 · “Oh, sure, but I don't know that.” 32:56
Seen
boat interior [frame:1], shirtless torso [frame:1], light-colored shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: crime, deception, power dynamics; style notes: close-up shot, natural daylight, high contrast between characters’ expressions

Two men are in a boat; one is shirtless and leaning over the other, who is lying down. The transcript reveals a plan involving drugging gin for a crew, with one man criticizing the other for not extorting more money.

“Here's the stuff. Did you get any more money out of him?” 32:56 · “Ah, you don't understand the business of being a proper crook. A crook promises and gets paid. Then he backs down and gets more pay.” 32:56 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 33:08 (passage 32:53–33:22); US record: No renewal found

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