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Captain Calamity · Beat 111 · permalink

Ship

35:25–36:10 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:2635:26Frame at 35:3635:36Frame at 36:0236:02Frame at 36:0936:09

Play from 35:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 284–294. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in blue shirt and light pants, holding a gun, standing visible
  • man seated, wearing light shirt and pants, wearing sunglasses visible
  • large man seated, shirtless, wearing light pants visible
  • man in blue jumpsuit, standing beside p5 visible
  • man in brown shirt, seated, smiling visible
  • bald man in blue work jacket, holding a small box visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a blue shirt points a gun at two seated men. [frame:1]
  • A man in a blue jumpsuit stands beside a seated man in a brown shirt. [frame:2]
  • The man in the blue jumpsuit and the man in the brown shirt are shown again, smiling. [frame:3]
  • A bald man in a blue work jacket holds a small box. [frame:4]
Also said
“You just make out a list and I'll take him ashore. Ashore? You get ashore once and you'd call me a liar. You'd say you weren't even on my ship. Shall I give him a shave, Captain?” 35:57
Seen
gun, sunglasses, small box, blue jumpsuit, brown shirt, blue work jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, threat, negotiation, shipboard tension; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting, static camera shots

In a dimly lit ship interior, a man in a blue shirt holds a gun on two seated men while another man in a blue jumpsuit stands nearby; a bald man in a blue work jacket later appears holding a small box. Dialogue suggests a confrontation over stolen treasure and a threat of imprisonment.

“Take it.” 35:26 · “A boy to steal my treasure, eh? Jobless. So you're the guy behind this, eh? I suppose you know it means prison for all three of you. It was a gamble, Bill. Just looking for your treasure? I lost him. I'll pay. You bet you'll pay. You'll sweat the bilge out of your filthy hide on a rock pile. Oh, no. No, Bill. Listen. You've got to have stores.” 35:31 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 35:26 (passage 35:25–36:10); US record: No renewal found

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