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Captain Calamity · Beat 129 · permalink

Bedroom

39:33–40:11 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 39:3539:35Frame at 39:4139:41Frame at 39:5639:56Frame at 40:1040:10

Play from 39:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 70 · shots 323–326. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in light-colored fedora, dark suit, light shirt, dark tie, holding a small object visible
  • man in dark uniform cap and blue jacket, leaning over p3 visible
  • man lying on bed, wearing striped shirt, face showing distress, tear visible visible
Seen happening
  • p1 speaks while holding a small object [frame:1]
  • p2 leans over p3 who is lying on a bed [frame:2]
  • close-up of p2 and p3, p3 has tear on face [frame:3]
  • p1 and p2 stand over p3 on the bed [frame:4]
Also said
“Where is Treasure Island?” 39:57 · “No puedo decir eso.” 40:02
Seen
fedora hat, small object held by p1, bed with ornate metal frame, striped shirt, dark uniform cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and coercive; themes: interrogation, resistance, torture; style notes: close-ups emphasize emotional distress; dim lighting and tight framing create claustrophobia

A man in a fedora and suit speaks while holding a small object; another man in a dark uniform leans over a third man lying on a bed, who appears distressed. The transcript includes a plea about not revealing the location of Treasure Island and a refusal in Spanish.

“That man, Samson, Naomi, she helped too. They tortured me.” 39:44 · “They want me to tell” 39:54 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 39:35 (passage 39:33–40:11); US record: No renewal found

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