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Captain Calamity · Beat 106 · permalink

Ship

33:22–34:16 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; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:4633:46Frame at 34:1334:13

Play from 33:22 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 59 · shots 270–271. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(ship, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man, shirtless, visible in profile visible
  • person lying down, wearing dark clothes, possibly unconscious visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man is shown in profile in a dark space. [frame:1]
  • A person is lying down near a hat and a light source, possibly unconscious. [frame:2]
Mentioned
  • The transcript mentions the crew getting drunk and being knocked in the head. [t:33:26]
Also said
“Dead to the world.” 33:58 · “It worked all right. That's fine, fine. Take a look at the rest of the crew. A blasted sense and act like we was afraid of them. They won't wake up.” 34:02
Seen
hat, light source, person lying down
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: deception, treasure, unconsciousness; style notes: low-key lighting, close-up and medium shots, dark interior setting

A man is shown in profile in a dark interior, then a wider shot reveals another figure lying down, possibly unconscious, near a hat and a light source. The transcript includes dialogue about a crew getting drunk, being knocked out, and someone's biscuits burning.

“When the crew gets good and drunk, he and his mates come aboard and get the gold. Then you get knocked in the head. Oh, sure. He's a nice guy. You know, the fellow behind this rig out would be a pretty smart guy. If he wasn't such a fool about treasure.” 33:26 · “My biscuits are burning.” 33:43 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 33:46 (passage 33:22–34:16); US record: No renewal found

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