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Captain Calamity · Beat 142 · permalink

Ship

42:35–42:54 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; 4 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 42:4042:40Frame at 42:4642:46Frame at 42:5142:51

Play from 42:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 354–356. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a patterned dress, seated and embraced by a man visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark shirt, embracing the woman visible
  • man lying down, wearing a light shirt, hands behind head visible
  • man standing on deck, wearing a light shirt and dark trousers visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man are seated together in a dark interior space. [frame:1]
  • A man lies down with his hands behind his head in the same dark space. [frame:2]
  • A man stands on the deck of the ship, visible in the background. [frame:3]
Seen
life preserver [frame:1], ropes [frame:1], bottle [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confined; themes: confinement, uncertainty, shipboard tension; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing, high contrast between dark interior and dimly lit deck

A woman and a man are shown in a dark, confined space on a ship; another man lies down in the same space, and a fourth man stands on deck. No names are spoken, and the setting remains interior on the ship.

“¿Qué es lo que se piensa?” 42:36 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 42:40 (passage 42:35–42:54); US record: No renewal found

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