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Captain Calamity · Beat 143 · permalink

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42:54–43:14 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:5542:55Frame at 42:5842:58Frame at 43:0443:04Frame at 43:1143:11

Play from 42:54 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 79 · shots 357–360. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man, wearing light-colored shirt and dark pants, seated or standing near water visible
  • woman, wearing light-colored dress or blouse, standing near man visible
Seen happening
  • A man is seated alone in a dark outdoor setting. [frame:1]
  • A woman approaches and interacts with the man near a railing or dock. [frame:2]
  • The man is again shown seated alone, facing forward. [frame:3]
  • The woman stands beside the man, who is smiling and looking up at her. [frame:4]
Seen
railing or dock structure [frame:2], body of water [frame:1, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet and intimate; themes: human interaction, nighttime solitude; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on characters, blue tint suggesting night or moonlight

A man and a woman are shown in a dimly lit outdoor setting at night, interacting near a body of water. The transcript contains a Spanish phrase thanking viewers, which is unrelated to the scene's content.

“¡Gracias por ver el video!” 43:06 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 42:55 (passage 42:54–43:14); US record: No renewal found

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