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Captain Calamity · Beat 136 · permalink

Interior

40:52–41:13 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:5740:57Frame at 41:0441:04Frame at 41:1041:10Frame at 41:1241:12

Play from 40:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 335–339. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • woman, blonde hair in curls, wearing a blue floral dress with low neckline, pearl necklace, and earrings visible
  • man, wearing a white suit and white fedora, climbing stairs visible
  • man, wearing a black-and-white striped shirt, standing on a landing above stairs visible
  • man, wearing a dark hat and coat, visible behind p1 in frame:1 visible
  • man, wearing a light blue shirt, visible in frame:2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white suit climbs a staircase while another man in a striped shirt stands above him. [frame:2]
  • The man in the white suit is seen from behind, reaching upward while climbing. [frame:3]
  • The man in the white suit falls backward down the stairs while the man in the striped shirt looks on. [frame:4]
Seen
staircase with wooden railings, pearl necklace and earrings, white fedora hat, black-and-white striped shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: conflict, fall from power, farewell; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, medium and wide shots, static camera angles

A woman in a blue floral dress and jewelry is shown among a crowd, followed by a man in a white suit climbing stairs while another man in a striped shirt stands above. The scene ends with the man in the white suit falling backward down the stairs. The only spoken line is '¡Adiós!' at 41:04.

“¡Adiós!” 41:04 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 40:57 (passage 40:52–41:13); US record: No renewal found

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