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Captain Calamity · Beat 112 · permalink

Private office

36:10–36:34 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:1136:11Frame at 36:1636:16Frame at 36:2536:25Frame at 36:3236:32

Play from 36:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 295–298. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light-colored hat, dark suit, bow tie, holding a wrapped object visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing brown shirt visible, audible
  • man with dark hair, wearing blue jacket over striped shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat holds a wrapped object and looks at the camera. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand side by side; one speaks while the other listens. [frame:2]
  • The man in the hat looks off to the side with a serious expression. [frame:3]
  • The two men smile and look at each other. [frame:4]
Also said
“until they're all aboard yes bill anything you say well let this be a lesson” 36:26
Seen
wrapped object, hat, bow tie, blue jacket, striped shirt, brown shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, power dynamics, covert action; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, studio lighting with high contrast shadows

Two men discuss drugging someone with coffee while a third man, wearing a hat and bow tie, looks on. The conversation includes a threat to knock teeth out and a request for store orders.

“Captain, let me put some of that stuff he sent for you in a cup of coffee and give him a nice drink, huh? Right. Well, pour it down as sort of we have to knock his teeth out.” 36:11 · “No, no, no, Bill. You wouldn't do that. Then do I get an order for all my stores, all I need?” 36:11 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 36:11 (passage 36:10–36:34); US record: No renewal found

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