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Captain Calamity · Beat 122 · permalink

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38:47–38:55 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 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 38:5038:50Frame at 38:5438:54

Play from 38:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 313–314. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, visible in frame 1, standing to the left visible
  • man in light-colored pants and blue shirt, being grabbed by others, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • man in blue jacket and white hat, grabbing p2, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • man in dark suit and glasses, visible in frame 2, standing behind p2 visible
  • unseen speaker, audible in transcript audible
Seen happening
  • Men are physically restraining another man in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
  • The struggle continues with one man being held by multiple others. [frame:2]
Seen
checkered tablecloth, wooden chair, overhead lamp, hats (various)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: conflict, confrontation, group violence; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing, high contrast between light and shadow, suggesting a dramatic or action-oriented scene

A group of men in a dimly lit interior are engaged in a physical struggle; one man is being grabbed and restrained by others while a voice urges them on. The scene is chaotic and appears to take place at night or in a darkened room with artificial lighting.

“Come on, get him! Get him!” 38:52 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 38:50 (passage 38:47–38:55); US record: No renewal found

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