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Captain Calamity · Beat 118 · permalink

Ship

38:09–38:24 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:1438:14Frame at 38:2138:21Frame at 38:2338:23

Play from 38:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 307–309. 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
  • woman with dark hair in updo, wearing patterned dress, being assisted visible
  • woman with short light hair, wearing light blue shirt and apron, assisting p1 visible
  • bald man in dark striped sweater, standing on deck visible
  • shirtless man sitting on deck visible
  • man seen from back, shirtless, leaning on railing visible
  • man seen from back, wearing pants, leaning on railing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman adjusts another woman's dress. [frame:1]
  • Men stand on a ship's deck at night. [frame:2]
  • Three men lean on a railing looking out at water. [frame:3]
Seen
patterned dress, apron, ship railing, striped sweater, dark water with reflections
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: sacrifice, duty, appearance vs reality; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting on deck, studio lighting indoors

A woman helps another woman with her dress indoors, then the scene cuts to men on a boat deck at night. One man speaks of helping the captain despite expecting harm.

“There, this will cover you up till we get something better. Oh, this is pretty. I guess I look too nice to be good, huh? Oh, I wouldn't say that. I know this will kill me.” 38:11 · “But I'm going to help the captain.” 38:22 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 38:14 (passage 38:09–38:24); US record: No renewal found

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