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Captain Calamity · Beat 125 · permalink

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39:02–39:06 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:0439:04

Play from 39:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 317–317. 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
  • wearing light-colored pants and shirt, mid-motion, possibly male, average build visible
Seen happening
  • A person in light clothing is climbing or descending a stone staircase. [frame:1]
Seen
stone staircase [frame:1], wooden railing [frame:1], icicles [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or suspenseful; themes: action, adventure, danger; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static medium shot, period film aesthetic

A person in light-colored clothing is seen mid-motion on a stone staircase inside a dimly lit structure. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 39:04 (passage 39:02–39:06); US record: No renewal found

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