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Captain Calamity · Beat 116 · permalink

Vehicle interior

37:25–37:46 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:2937:29Frame at 37:3937:39

Play from 37:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 303–304. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, seen from behind, standing on a boat visible
  • woman in light blue shirt and white skirt, seen from behind visible
  • Captain Bill (named at t:37:30): man in dark uniform, facing woman, close-up visible, audible
  • man in background, partially visible, dark clothing visible
Also said
“One of you boys entered the boat lively. Now I'm going ashore. Look out, but it may be a trap. Then it may not be a trap. If they've hurt, Mike, I'll tear the place down around their ears. All right, I'm going with you then. Now suit yourself. Here, take care of her, Madge.” 37:43
Seen
boat [frame:1], dark uniform [frame:2], light blue shirt [frame:1], white skirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger, rescue, loyalty; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on faces, dark night setting

A man and a woman are on a boat at night; the man speaks of going ashore to find Mike, warning of a possible trap. Another man is visible in the background as the woman is told to be taken care of by Madge.

“well take it easy and i know what's happened it's my captain bill you're going to quickly kill him” 37:30 · “It's not the thing you're gonna kill Mike if you don't tell.” 37:40 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 37:29 (passage 37:25–37:46); US record: No renewal found

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