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Captain Calamity · Beat 131 · permalink

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40:21–40:35 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 40:2340:23Frame at 40:2740:27Frame at 40:3240:32

Play from 40:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 328–330. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior)
People
  • wearing a light-colored hat and dark jacket, light pants, seen from behind visible
  • wearing dark top and light pants, seen from behind, partially obscured by vines visible
  • woman in light-colored dress, surrounded by men, visible in frame:3 visible
  • man in blue shirt and white cap, visible in frame:3 visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, visible in frame:3 visible
  • man in dark shirt, visible in frame:3 visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures walk through a narrow corridor with hanging vines or ropes. [frame:1]
  • A wooden beam and thatched roof are visible overhead in a dark space. [frame:2]
  • A group of people, including a woman in a light dress, are gathered in a dark, crowded space. [frame:3]
Seen
hanging vines or ropes, wooden beam, thatched roof, metal railing, light-colored dress, blue shirt and white cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and claustrophobic; themes: confinement, group tension, mystery; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing, high contrast between light and shadow, suggesting a suspenseful or dramatic moment

Two figures walk through a narrow, dim corridor with hanging vines or ropes. A group of people, including a woman in a light dress, are gathered in a dark, crowded space with wooden beams overhead. 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 40:23 (passage 40:21–40:35); US record: No renewal found

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