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Captain Calamity · Beat 115 · permalink

Ship

36:43–37:25 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0337:03Frame at 37:2537:25

Play from 36:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 301–302. 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, frame:2, t:36:45
Time of day
night evidence: ['frame:1', 'frame:2', 't:36:45']
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a bow tie visible, audible
  • Bill (named at t:36:45): man, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket over a white shirt visible, audible
  • man, wearing a white sailor’s cap, partially visible visible
  • silhouette of a swimmer in dark water visible
Seen happening
  • The woman and Bill are visible on deck, facing each other. [frame:1]
  • A swimmer is seen approaching the ship through the water. [frame:2]
Also said
“woman aboard a ship is bad luck yes i've seen that work out too but it all depends on the woman your good luck for me nothing can go wrong now captain bill” 37:09 · “i saw someone swimming toward the ship” 37:23
Seen
sailor's cap, ship railing, dark water
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic and suspenseful; themes: romance at sea, superstition and luck, impending arrival or threat; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on characters, dark water background, high contrast between figures and night

A man and a woman speak on a ship at night; a swimmer approaches. The woman is described as good luck for the captain, who is named Bill.

“I'm waiting for a hat full of wind. It'll come with a tide at eight bells. Then we'll up anchor and sail.” 36:45 · “Oh, I'm so glad to be aboard your ship. I'm happy, Bill. Good. So am I.” 36:45 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 37:03 (passage 36:43–37:25); US record: No renewal found

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