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Captain Calamity · Beat 149 · permalink

Ship

45:07–45:38 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:1445:14Frame at 45:2945:29

Play from 45:07 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 80 · shots 378–379. 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 man, dark hair, wearing light-colored pants, holding a pistol, standing on rigging visible
  • man wearing white cap and striped shirt, shielding eyes from sun visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, standing on deck visible
  • man in dark shirt and pants, standing on deck visible
  • shirtless man visible in rigging, upper right visible
Seen happening
  • A shirtless man stands on ship rigging holding a pistol. [frame:1]
  • Multiple men are visible on deck and in rigging; one shields his eyes. [frame:2]
Also said
“Y es armado con un crew de al menos 20 hombres.” 45:33
Seen
pistol, ship rigging, ship deck, white cap, striped shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, shipboard tension, impending threat; style notes: high-angle shots, bright daylight, wide framing to show ship scale and group positioning

Two men are on a ship's rigging; one is shirtless and holding a pistol. A group of men, some shirtless, are visible on deck and in the rigging, with one man shielding his eyes from the sun. The transcript indicates a warning about an approaching armed group led by someone named Joblin.

“¡Visor es coming!” 45:27 · “Esa de los rifles, Mike. ¿Está bien seguro que es Joblin, Maluka? ¡No!” 45:28 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 45:14 (passage 45:07–45:38); US record: No renewal found

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