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Captain Calamity · Beat 128 · permalink

Private office

39:15–39:33 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:2139:21Frame at 39:3039:30Frame at 39:3239:32

Play from 39:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 320–322. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light-colored hat and dark suit, standing in doorway visible
  • man wearing dark cap and light pants, entering room visible
  • man wearing blue shirt, dark cap, light pants, restraining another man visible
  • man wearing striped shirt, lying on bed, being restrained visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat and suit stands in a doorway as rain falls outside. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cap and light pants enters a room through a doorway. [frame:2]
  • A man in a blue shirt and cap restrains another man lying on a bed. [frame:3]
Seen
rain [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], bed with metal frame [frame:3], cap [frame:2], striped shirt [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, violence, inquiry; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, tight framing on characters, suggesting a dramatic or noir tone

A man in a hat and suit stands in a rain-splashed doorway while another man in a cap and light pants enters a room. A third man in a blue shirt and cap restrains a fourth man in a striped shirt on a bed. The transcript includes a line asking who caused harm to someone.

“no” 39:22 · “like cut and burn the poor devil please nothing but raw meat who did this to you like who did it here” 39:30 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 39:21 (passage 39:15–39:33); US record: No renewal found

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