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Captain Calamity · Beat 14 · permalink

Ship

3:43–4:02 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; 5 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 3:453:45Frame at 3:503:50Frame at 3:533:53Frame at 4:004:00

Play from 3:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 35–40. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless, wearing trousers and a cap, standing at the helm visible
  • shirtless, wearing trousers, handling ropes near the mast visible
  • shirtless, wearing trousers, climbing on the sail or yardarm visible
  • shirtless, wearing trousers, working with others near the bow visible
  • partially visible, wearing a suit, seated near the bow visible
Seen happening
  • Men pull ropes and handle equipment on the deck of a ship. [frame:1]
  • A man climbs on the sail or yardarm while another stands at the helm. [frame:2]
  • A shirtless man in a cap stands at the ship's wheel. [frame:3]
  • Men continue working near the bow, handling ropes and equipment. [frame:4]
Also said
“Find your hole! You kinky heads! You anchor drop! Your anchor head for shore!” 3:46 · “We're riding! We're riding!” 3:46
Seen
ship's wheel [frame:3], sails [frame:1], ropes [frame:1], anchor [frame:1], rocky shore [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and active; themes: seafaring, teamwork, nautical command; style notes: wide shots showing ship scale, bright daylight, dynamic composition with figures in motion

Men work on a sailing ship near a rocky shore; one man stands at the helm while others handle ropes and the anchor. The transcript includes shouted commands about measuring depth and dropping anchor.

“Reef 2! Come back below! Look where you go and pay out astounding line! A astounding line!” 3:46 · “Heed 2 and measure the depth! We'll measure our depth! It's 14 fathoms now! And drop it to 9!” 3:46 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 3:45 (passage 3:43–4:02); US record: No renewal found

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